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 ECTP fidelity checks, ensuring schools are supported to provide ECTs with an ECTP-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.
- Provide regular updates about induction to the Educational Establishment as appropriate.
Meet our AB team:
The main goal of our appropriate body is to provide support. As such, we have a few different means of communication open to allow for conversations to take place easily and with full accessibility. If you have a concern/need support or just want to reach out for a chat and to say hi, please get to know our team below and some of the ways in which you can reach us:
Contact Details: Helen Thatcher AB lead: |
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Emma Barnes AB Administrator: |
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The Appropriate Body Named Contact: Intrigued. Well, if you are in our area or just looking for a team who are all about ensuring the quality of your ECT induction, then please navigate to the following page - /appropriate-body/ect-registration, where you can find a full list of how to register your Early Career Teachers for induction with ourselves as your Appropriate Body (AB). We look forward to working with you! |