Reporting year 2025

Serious incident notifications

Pre-release access list

Published

Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.

  • Secretary of State for Education
  • Minister for Children and Families
  • Minister for Skills
  • Special Adviser, Policy
  • Special Adviser, Policy, Speeches, and Political Engagements
  • Special Adviser, Communications
  • Special Adviser, Parliamentary, Social Media, and Regional/Trade Press Communications 
  • Special Adviser, Women & Equalities Policy
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Director General, Families
  • Director General, Strategy
  • Director (2), Children's Social Care Strategy and Care System 
  • Director Children's Social Care - Safeguarding and Workforce
  • Chief Social Worker for Children and Families
  • Deputy Director, Child Protection Safeguarding
  • Deputy Director, Adoption, Family Justice and Alternatives to Care
  • Deputy Director, Looked After Children Placements
  • Deputy Director, Regional Cooperatives and Fostering
  • Deputy Director, Outcomes Care Leavers and Capital
  • Deputy Director (2), Children's Social Care Improvement and Intervention for Regions Group
  • Deputy Director (2), Serious Incidents, National Panel and Multi Agency
  • Deputy Director, Multi-Agency Information Sharing
  • Grade 6, Safeguarding Policy
  • Grade 6, Child Protection Policy
  • Grade 7, Care Leaver Policy
  • Grade 7, Intrafamilial Harm
  • Grade 7 (2), Child Protection and Safeguarding
  • Senior Executive Officer, Child Protection and Safeguarding
  • Chief Analyst and Director, SARDIS and Strategic Data Transformation
  • Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics and Section Head, Statistics Services Unit 
  • Grade 7, Children’s Social Care Analysis and Research
  • Deputy Director, News and Social Media 
  • Chief Media Officer
  • Senior Media Officer
  • Media Officer
  • Apprentice Media Officer
  • Deputy Head, Social Media
  • Principal Officer, Safeguarding Social Care Regulation and Inspection, Ofsted
  • Data and Insight, Ofsted
  • Panel Chair, National Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
  • Panel Member, National Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
  • Head of Communications, National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel Secretariat