Department For Education
Early career teachers are entitled to 2 years of training based on the early career framework.
To set up training for your early career teachers, youll need to:
- appoint an appropriate body to quality assure their induction
- nominate an induction tutor to monitor their progress and report back to the Department for Education (DfE)
- choose a training option
- arrange mentoring to give them support and feedback
Appoint an appropriate body
Early career teachers cannot start their induction until youve appointed an appropriate body.
What an appropriate body does
Appropriate bodies quality assure the induction of early career teachers. For example, they:
- check that your early career teachers receive their statutory entitlements, such as mentoring throughout their 2 year induction period
- make sure formal assessments conducted by your induction tutor are fair and appropriate
Unless you use a training provider to deliver your training, your appropriate body will also check that your training covers the full depth of the early career framework.
Your appropriate body can also give advice if your early career teachers are serving a reduced or part time induction. Theyll need to agree to any reduction to the induction period.
Find an appropriate body
Find an appropriate body and contact them to appoint them.
Who you can and cannot appoint
You can appoint one appropriate body for all of your early career teachers, but you may need or choose to appoint different ones.
You may have previously used a local authority as an appropriate body. From September 2023, you cannot use a local authority for new inductions, so youll need to choose another appropriate body for any new early career teachers.
If an early career teacher did their initial teacher training (ITT) through an accredited ITT provider who is also an appropriate body, you cannot appoint that appropriate body for that teacher.
Early career teachers may be serving their induction at an appropriate body. For example, they may work at a teaching school hub that is also an appropriate body. If this is the case, you cannot appoint that appropriate body for that teacher.
Learn more about who you can and cannot appoint in section 2 of the statutory guidance on induction for early career teachers.
Nominate an induction tutor
Induction tutors monitor and support your early career teachers. They conduct:
- regular progress reviews
- 2 formal assessment meetings with early career teachers during the 2-year induction period - one midway through and one at the end
Read about the roles and responsibilities of induction tutors in section 5 of the statutory guidance on induction for early career teachers.
Induction tutors also need to use the Manage training for early careers teachers service to give details of your mentors, early career teachers and training option to DfE. This ensures that your school receives the correct funding to support induction and training.
Who to nominate
Choose someone who:
- holds qualified teacher status
- can assess early career teachers progress against the teachers standards
Schools commonly choose someone in a senior leadership position, such as an assistant head.
Try to choose someone who is not also a mentor. The 2 roles have separate and different responsibilities.
Schools can only have one registered user at a time for the Manage training for early career teachers service.
Nominate your first induction tutor
Use the Manage training for early career teachers service to do this.
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Follow the instructions to find your school in the database, then select Confirm and send.
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DfE will send an access link to the email address your school provided to the Get Information About Schools (GIAS) register.
Choose a training option
Option 1: use a lead provider
Lead providers work with delivery partners such as trusts, teaching school hubs and universities to deliver training directly to your early career teachers and mentors.
This is fully funded by the DfE, so theres no cost for eligible schools. Learn about funding for training based on the early career framework.
Providers may need to use face to face sessions as part of their training, so contact them to check where theyre based before signing up.
To sign up with a lead provider, contact them:
- Ambition Institute
- Best Practice Network (home of Outstanding Leaders Partnership)
- Education Development Trust
- National Institute of Teaching, founded by the School-Led Development Trust
- Teach First
- UCL Institute of Education
If you choose to use a lead provider, your induction tutor will need to report this through Manage training for early career teachers.
Option 2: deliver your own training using DfE-accredited materials
DfE-accredited materials include mentor session guidelines and self-directed study materials.
Create a Support for early career teachers account to see what materials are available.
You can choose materials from one of the following suppliers:
- Ambition Institute
- Education Development Trust
- Teach First
- UCL Early Career Teacher Consortium
If you choose to deliver your own training using DfE-accredited materials, your induction tutor will need to report this through Manage training for early career teachers.
Your appropriate body will check your programme to make sure it covers the full depth of the early career framework.
Option 3: design and deliver your own training
You can design and deliver your own 2-year training programme covering every learn that and learn how to statement in the early career framework.
You can use DfE-accredited training materials for reference. These include mentor session guidelines and self-directed study materials.
Create a Support for early career teachers account to see what materials are available.
Talk to your appropriate body for advice on next steps.
Your appropriate body will check your programme to make sure it covers the early career framework.
Avoid changing your training option part way through induction.
Arrange mentoring
Early career teachers are entitled to mentor support throughout their 2-year induction period.