Early Career Teacher induction

Appropriate Body services cessation

As part of the government’s Appropriate Body agenda, Local Authorities have ceased being able to provide Appropriate Body services for Early Career Teachers (ECTs) from September 2024.

Hampshire, and specifically Education Personnel Services as the lead for the Appropriate Body service, would like to extend a thank you to all those schools it has worked with to provide Appropriate Body services to in the past.

From September 2024, designated Teaching School Hubs will be the main provider of all Appropriate Body services to schools. The Teaching School Hubs who are acting as Appropriate Bodies in the Hampshire area are:

Early Career Framework – ECT Align continues to be available to all schools

In partnership with Ambition Institute, HIAS staff are delighted to continue to offer the fully funded ECT Align programme to all schools.

Schools can use ECT Align for the ECF provision whilst registering with any Appropriate Body. ECF provision and the Appropriate Body operate independently yet in tandem to fully support ECTs during their first two years of teaching.

Find out more about ECT Align

Resources

Find out more about induction, training and support for ECTs:

Questions
  • Questions about struggling ECTs should be directed to your own Appropriate Body in the first instance. If the case escalates into formal procedures, please raise this in the usual way through the EPS contact model.
  • Questions on specific ECTs and Appropriate Body processes should be directed to your own Appropriate Body, or one that you are considering contracting with.
  • Questions on employment-related aspects of ECT Induction can be raised in the usual way through the EPS contact model.
Previous Progress Reviews or Assessments

Appropriate Bodies or schools who are taking on an ECT part-way through their induction, and who wish to access the ECT's previous Progress Reviews or Assessments that were completed when Hampshire County Council was the ECT's Appropriate Body, can email [email protected] to request the reports.

You must include in your request:

  • ECT first name and surname
  • ECT date of birth
  • ECT Teacher Reference Number (TRN)
  • Name of new school the ECT is being employed at
  • Start date of new post at that school (this is to confirm that the ECT has actually been employed and that the report will not form part of the new school’s recruitment checks).

Please note that in line with the relevant Statutory Guidance, we do not hold reports any longer than six years.