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​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.

Ready to register with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough as your AB, get to know our team below and see the next steps on how to make this possible:

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:

hthatcher@cptshn.co.uk

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Emma Barnes AB Administrator:

ebarnes@cptshn.co.uk

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The Appropriate Body Named Contact:

CentralHR@meridiantrust.co.uk 

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!