This two day summit will take a series of different lenses to long term education thinking. Some key politicians will be asked about building cross-party consensus with some suggested new approaches that will make it easier to move away from stale arguments about structures, and concentrate instead on education as a catalyst for genuine levelling up and community growth.

The event will challenge some assumptions about purpose and practice and deep dive into why some policies succeed whereas others fall at the last hurdle.

What would it take to build cross-party consensus on education policy? How will we be talking about education in 20 years time? Levelling up – a genuine long-term plan?