Implementing the Education Estates Strategy

20 Oct 2026
Shaping Tomorrow Stage
Department for Education , Shaping Tomorrow

The Education Estates Strategy is a long-term strategy, backed by a 10-year plan to create schools and colleges that are safe, suitable, sustainable and sufficiently sized. This session will demonstrate how that plan is now being delivered through the strategy's three pillars: managing the estate, improving and renewing the estate, and building and rebuilding the estate.

Senior leaders from the Department for Education will explore progress across the strategy's three pillars: enabling Responsible Bodies to proactively and efficiently manage and maintain their estates; improving the condition and resilience of the estate through long-term strategic maintenance and renewal; and delivering high-quality building and rebuilding projects where they are needed. Delegates will gain a clearer understanding of what is live now, what is being delivered, and what the strategy means for them.

Chairperson
Jo Marchant MBE
Jo Marchant MBE, Estates Professional - The Boxing Academy
Speakers
Lindsay Harris
Lindsay Harris, Deputy Director, Education Estates Strategy & Policy - Department for Education
Sally Smith
Sally Smith, Director, Construction Delivery - Department for Education
Emma Hockley
Emma Hockley, Deputy Director, Strategy & Policy - Department for Education
Jabu Chowdhury
Jabu Chowdhury, Deputy Director, Construction Grants, Grants Assurance and Response Division - Department for Education