Important information for Induction Tutors – Autumn 2024

28.11.2024

Thank you for your ongoing support of ECTs. Please read the following or click the button below.

Important information for Induction Tutors

January 2025 registrations
Do you have an Early Career Teacher starting in January 2025? Registrations are now open. To get started, click the button below:

End-of-term dates
Please familiarise yourself with the upcoming dates for your ECT reports below:
You may have numerous ECTs with different due dates; please ensure all reports are due on time so your Quality Assurer can review them within the timescales set by the TRA.

Term	Report	Release date	Due date
6	Final Assessment	22nd November	29th November
3	End of Y1 Assessment	29th November	6th December
1,2,4 & 5	Progress Review	6th December	13th December

Click here for the entire 2024-25 Academic end-of-term report dates and key documents.

Writing reports
When completing your ECT reports, you may wish to focus on the standards below for each term’s report.
Please refer to the table below for Teacher Standards. For ECTs that are causing concerns you may wish to expand on more standards.

Term of Induction	Teacher’s Standards to Reference in Progress Review or Assessment
1	1, 2, 3 and 7
2	4 and 5
3	ALL
4	1, 2, 3 and 7
5	4 and 5
6	ALL

Completing reports
Formal Assessments
Before each due date, the ECT, tutor, and headteacher must digitally sign all assessments. The reports are not complete until signed by everyone.
It is essential that Headteachers read the reports prior to signing.

Progress reviews
For progress reviews, these need to be signed by the ECT and Tutor before they are complete and can be received and read by the AB.

Deadlines There is no flexibility for deadlines as these are set to ensure the AB meets the requirements of the TRA.

Support Plans
If the induction tutor determines that the ECT is not progressing satisfactorily against the Teachers’ Standards for their stage of Induction, they should immediately contact their named Quality Assurer.
The QA will support the school with guidance and in checking the schools support plan.
Once the support plan has been agreed by the named QA, the school should then meet with the ECT to share the plan.

Support Plan Guidance

Visits and communication
Appropriate Bodies are expected to carry out a number of visits each term to support schools and to check schools are following the statutory guidance by providing ECTs with their entitlements. Please ensure you respond to any AB requests to visit your school.
In line with our AB agreement schools are expected:
To engage and cooperate with the Appropriate Body to support statutory Quality Assurance visits.
To provide the Appropriate Body with all documentation required to support Quality Assurance visits within the timelines provided
All of the schools we have visited have highlighted how helpful and supportive the visits have been.

FAO: Colleges & Sixth Forms with ECTs teaching 16-19-year-olds
ECTs within 16-19 settings should spend the equivalent of at least ten days teaching children of compulsory school age in a school during their induction. You will now be asked to confirm the placement in the final term six assessment.

Change of information & invoicing
If you have any changes to tutors or Headteachers, please contact us at [email protected] to notify us of this change.
If the AB is not informed about your ECT’s change of situation, the school will still be charged for a full-term service. It is important that you notify us of any changes to an ECTs status.

Induction Tutor Training
All Induction Tutors must attend face-to-face training every two years, and all new Tutors should attend as soon as possible. This also applies to schools that may have multiple Induction Tutors.
If you wish to attend every year, you are more than welcome to book our training at any time. If we receive more updated information from the DfE and TRA, we will arrange a further event to ensure you know any new guidance.
If you have any new Tutors starting the role soon or who have missed our training so far, please click the button below to secure your place on our January training course, taking place on 29th January 2025:

Book Induction Tutor Training

Key Contacts
Jo Conway | [email protected] AB Director
Rachel Dean | [email protected] Assistant Operations Coordinator
Contact
0161 785 5083 | [email protected]