This week the only talking point is the election result and what that could mean for the education sector as Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to “repair our public services” under a “mission of national renewal to start to rebuild our country” after Labour won a landslide victory in the general election this morning.

Labour inherits an education system beset with problems, with schools starved of funding and almost as many teachers leaving as joining the profession each year and Councils facing bankruptcy because of ballooning SEND costs.

The party will almost immediately have to make a decision on teacher pay and a decision on how much funding schools will receive from next year will likely come as part of a spending review in the autumn.

Bridget Phillipson is now set to become the next education secretary and Gillian Keegan has lost her seat in Parliament. She had served as the Education Secretary since October 2022, when she was appointed to the role by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. She was the tenth Conservative to hold the role since 2010, and the sixth since the last election in 2019.