Appropriate Body
Appropriate Bodies' Role:
Monitoring of support – appropriate bodies will:
- Check that Early Career Teachers are receiving their statutory entitlements, and that regard is had to the statutory guidance.
- Provide ECF fidelity checks, ensuring schools are supported to provide ECTs with an ECF-based induction.
Monitoring of assessment – appropriate bodies will make the final decision as to whether the ECT has satisfactorily met the Teachers’ Standards, based on the headteacher’s recommendation.
What we provide to the school:
- Responsive advice, support and guidance from an experienced and knowledgeable team.
- Access to our comprehensive Induction Guidance booklet and other associated resources and documents.
- Access to the ECT Manager website, a simple and secure paperless system for ECT registrations, assessments and induction resources.
- Quality assurance visits to a sample of schools to provide formative feedback and advice.
- Advice and support for schools if an ECT is at risk of not meeting the Teachers’ Standards.
- Panel to oversee quality assurance procedures and to agree applications for reduced or extended induction.
- Induction data provided as required to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA).
- Induction Tutor/Lead update briefings.
- Training for Induction Tutors and Induction Leads who are new to the role.
- All ECTs registered with us will receive free membership of the Chartered College of Teaching for one year.
- Provide regular updates about induction to the Educational Establishment as appropriate.
Registering with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough AB Service:
Please navigate to the following page - /appropriate-body/ect-registration for a full list of how to register your Early Career Teachers for induction with the Appropriate Body (AB).