On 15 November 2022, the Department for Education published a response to the consultation on appropriate body reform and induction assessment, held from 26 May to 21 July 2022. We appreciate that these changes will impact schools and to support the transition, the DfE has prepared an information pack.
Click here to access the AB Reforms DfE briefing pack for schools.
Schools are required to register their Early Career Teachers with an Appropriate Body to ensure they complete their inductions. The AB has two main roles:
1) Monitoring of support: ensuring that ECTs are receiving their statutory entitlements and fidelity checks, ensuring schools are supported to provide ECTs with an ECF-based induction.
2) Monitoring of assessment – make the final decision as to whether the ECT has satisfactorily met the Teachers’ Standards, based on the headteacher’s recommendation.
The new Spencer AB will provide a streamlined AB service for primary and secondary ECTs engaging with the ECF Training across the Hub area. We hope that our offer will support schools in navigating the recent changes to induction including the Early Career Framework.
Your school chooses to work with a provider accredited by the Department for Education who designs and delivers a programme of face-to-face and online training to ECTs and their mentors. £200 per ECT, per year.
An additional charge for fidelity checks if your school uses the available DfE accredited materials to deliver your own ECT and mentor support. These materials have been accredited by the Department for Education and quality assured by the Education Endowment Foundation. £200 per ECT, per year PLUS £400 per school.
An additional charge for fidelity checks if your school designs and delivers a programme of learning for ECTs and mentors based on the Early Career Framework. £200 per ECT, per year PLUS £500 per school.
We are hosting an information event for anyone new to ECF & AB with us, the audience for this is induction tutors. This will take place on 7th September 2023 – BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE
We recommend that schools familiarise themselves with these key documents below to help them
This is the Early Career Framework, the ‘curriculum’ that the new induction for Early Career Teachers (ECTs) must deliver on. The Teacher Standards still remain the assessment tool against which ECTs will be judged to successfully complete induction.
This is a useful document which outlines the statutory requirements for schools and will support schools in making a decision on how they will support their ECTs: the full induction package (FIP), the core induction package (CIP) or the school-based induction.
For schools choosing the core induction package or the school-based induction, there is useful information on how the Appropriate Body will be involved ‘fidelity check’ your school’s plans. There are templates included and an outline of what to expect.
with the Hub in partnership with Education Development Trust