Early Career Teacher induction
- Appropriate Body services cessation
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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 – Hampshire Align continues to deliver to schools
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Hampshire Align are delighted to continue to deliver the ECF (My Ambition programme) in schools as well as a bespoke CPD programme developed by HIAS.
Schools can use the Hampshire Align ECF programme whilst registered with any Appropriate Body – both services do not need to be delivered by the same organisation.
Find out more about the Hampshire training programme:
- Resources
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Find out more about induction, training and support for ECTs:
- Questions
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- 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
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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.