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Setting up training

Early career teachers are entitled to 2 years of training based on theearly career framework.

There are steps to follow to set up training for your early career teachers.

1. Appoint an appropriate body to quality assure their induction.
2. Nominate an induction tutor to monitor their progress and report back to the Department for Education (DfE).
3. Choose a training option.
4. Arrange mentoring to give them support and feedback.

Appointing an appropriate body

Early career teachers cannot start their induction until you have appointed an appropriate body.

Appropriate bodies assure the quality of the induction of early career teachers by:

• checking that your early career teachers receive their statutory entitlements, such as mentoring, throughout their 2-year induction period
• making sure the 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 theearly career framework.

Your appropriate body can also give advice if your early career teachers are serving a reduced or part time induction. They will need to agree to any reduction to the induction period.

Who you can and cannot appoint

You can appoint one appropriate body for all of your early career teachers, or you can appoint different ones for each early career teacher.

You cannot appoint an appropriate body that is:

• the same accredited initial teacher training (ITT) provider where an early career teacher did their ITT
• the same provider where the early career teacher is serving their induction, such as a teaching school hub or the lead school within the teaching school hub
• a local authority after 31 August 2024

Nominating an induction tutor

Induction tutors monitor and support your early career teachers. They carry out:

• regular progress reviews
• formal assessment meetings during the 2-year induction period - one midway through (usually at the end of year 1) and one at the end

DfE expects schools to choose someone who:

• holds qualified teacher status
• can assess early career teachers progress against the teachers standards

Schools often choose someone in a senior leadership position, such as an assistant head.

Try to choose someone who is not also a mentor, as the roles have separate responsibilities.

Induction tutors need to use the Manage training for early careers teachers service to give DfE details of your:

• mentors
• early career teachers
• training option

This ensures that your school receives the correct funding to support induction and training.

Nominate your induction tutor

Use theManage training for early career teachersservice to nominate your induction tutor.

1. VisitSend your school a link to use this service.
2. Follow the instructions to find your school in the database, then select Confirm and send.
3. DfEwill send an access link to the email address your school provided to theGet Information About Schools (GIAS)register.

Choosing a training option

You can choose to deliver training for your early career teachers by:

• using a training provider
• delivering your own training using DfE-accredited materials
• designing and delivering your own training

You should avoid changing your training option part way through an early career teachers induction, and plan any changes for the end of the school year, if possible.

Make sure that any changes are right for your early career teachers and mentors before you make them.

Using a training provider

Training 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 theDfE, so theres no cost for eligible schools. Learn aboutfunding for training based on the early career framework.

Training providers may use face-to-face sessions as part of their training, so check where they are based before signing up.

The following training providers offer training for early career teachers:

• 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 training provider, your nominated induction tutor will need to report this through Manage training for early career teachers.

Training providers from September 2025

From September 2025, the following training providers will offer training for early career teachers based on the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF):

• Ambition Institute
• Education Development Trust
• National Institute of Teaching, founded by the School-Led Development Trust
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