Helen Hayes MP Roundtable
Durham
THIS IS A PAST EVENT
Helen Hayes is the Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, and was elected Chair of the House of Commons Education Select Committee in September 2024. Helen is joining us for a roundtable, to speak about the work of the committee, and hear directly from North East school leaders. This will be an important opportunity for schools in our region to influence the debates in education policy, helping to shape the Education Committee’s scrutiny of government policy, and set the tone for broader debates. In the roundtable discussions we will prioritise those issues affecting large numbers of North East schools, issues with clear regional disparities, and areas where government policy isn’t working well in the region.
Attendees from this event will be from our trustees, advisory board, and SBM Council, ensuring representation from school types, stages, and contexts, as well as school leadership roles.
To ensure all schools across the region have a voice at the roundtable, we are asking our Partner Schools to complete a short survey to identify the 3-5 core issues we should prioritise. Your input will directly inform a briefing paper we will share with Helen Hayes MP, the DfE, Ofsted, the media and all of our region’s Members of Parliament. It is especially vital ahead of the forthcoming White Paper to ensure that North East school voices are heard loudly and clearly. Fill out the survey.
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Helen Hayes MP
Before being elected to Parliament, Helen worked as a town planner. She has spent her entire working life – both as a town planner and as an MP – involving local people in decision-making. Helen works closely on the issues that matter most to her constituents, championing the NHS and local schools, tackling the housing crisis, fighting the injustice of the Windrush scandal and the hostile environment, addressing air pollution and improving road safety, taking action to stop the climate emergency, and pushing for measures to lower the cost of living.
She led the campaign against the closure of the local Royal Mail Delivery Offices in East Dulwich and West Norwood and has continued working to fix broken postal services. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Helen campaigned for better support for King’s College Hospital staff, successfully forcing the government to write off the hospital’s historic debt.
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