Three MPs from Labour鈥檚 class of 2024 have been appointed ministers at the Department of Education in a reshuffle at a crucial moment for schools policy. While education secretary Bridget Phillipson kept her role, it was all change elsewhere with t. In their place come Georgia Gould, Josh MacAlister and Olivia Bailey 鈥� all elected to parliament for the first time last year. While Gould replaced McKinnell, government is yet to announce roles and portfolios for the newcomers. Baroness Smith remains as skills minister, . The reshuffle comes as the sector prepares for a busy term. Ofsted inspection reforms will be announced tomorrow, with the curriculum review, SEND reforms and a white paper also due before Christmas. 贬别谤别鈥檚 Schools Week鈥檚 trusty need to know on the new education ministers 鈥� Georgia Gould, education minister Gould, the MP for Queen’s Park and Maida Vale, was a councillor in the London borough of Camden from 2010 to 2024, serving as the authority鈥檚 leader from 2017 to 2024. Camden includes the constituency represented by Sir Keir Starmer Before her promotion to become a minister of state at the DfE, Gould was a Parliamentary undersecretary of state, a more junior minister, in the Cabinet Office. According to the government鈥檚 website, she had responsibility for public sector reform, oversight of government functions and public bodies policy She is the daughter of New Labour grandee Lord Philip Gould and Baroness Gail Rebuck, the current chair of publishing house Penguin Random House. Gould was a Labour peer until his death in 2016, while Rebuck remains a Labour member of the House of Lords In 2015, Gould wrote a book titled Wasted: How Misunderstanding Young Britain Threatens Our Future. Writing about it, she said: 鈥�Young people don鈥檛 just want a job, they want the opportunity for creativity, entrepreneurialism and to be part of something bigger than themselves. The big challenge for Labour is to hold as many aspirations for young people as they do for themselves.鈥� One of her solutions was for 鈥渞adical devolution鈥� Gould it was while attending Camden School for Girls that she saw the 鈥渄epths of inequality鈥� in her borough. 鈥淚 saw more and more of my friends and people I was at school with leaving education early and meeting all sorts of barriers,鈥� she said. , she described herself as a 鈥減roud feminist鈥� and points out the school was founded by suffragist Frances Mary Buss. Josh MacAlister, junior education minister MacAlister, the MP for Whitehaven and Workington in Cumbria, trained as a teacher through the Teach First Programme and went on to teach Citizenship at a school in Oldham for three-and-a-half-years Within months of becoming an MP, MacAlister tabled a private members bill to ban smartphones in schools in October 2024. The bill has since been watered-down, instead calling for the education secretary to research the impact of children鈥檚 use of social media and the digital age of consent to rise from 13 to 16 years. He has also called for a 鈥渞esurgence of civics in schools鈥� In 2013, MacAlister established Frontline, a graduate social working training programme modelled on Teach First. It was provided with 拢45 million funding from the Department for Education in 2019 He also led a review of children鈥檚 social care under the Conservative government between 2021 and 2022. It made over 80 recommendations, calling for schools to become statutory safeguarding partners and 鈥渃orporate parents鈥� of children in care MacAlister is married to Matt Hood, an education policy expert who helped found and then lead the Oak National Academy Olivia Bailey, junior education minister Bailey became MP for Reading West and Mid Berkshire – a newly-created seat – in the 2024 election Her family has education ties. Her mother worked as a secondary school teacher and her father, Roy Bailey, is deputy leader and executive member for education at Bracknell Forest Council Bailey has brushed shoulders with senior party leaders, working as head of domestic policy to Sir Keir Starmer from 2020 to 2022. She also worked for two years as the party’s head of domestic policy She previously worked as director and then partner at Public First, a consultancy which has clients in the education sector. Public First partner Ed Dorrell is currently advising the DfE on drafting its upcoming schools white paper At university, Bailey served as women鈥檚 officer of the National Union of Students from 2009 to 2011. Here, she published the first national study into harassment and abuse suffered by female students