John Taylor Teaching School Hub has supported 1000+ ECTs through their induction period.

Roles & Responsibilities

Appropriate Bodies are responsible for:
  • Checking that ECTs are receiving their statutory entitlements, and that regard is had to the statutory guidance.
  • Carry out an Early Career Framework/ Early Career Teacher Entitlement compliance checks, ensuring schools are supported to provide ECTs with an ECF/ ECTE induction (see below for further explanation).
  • Appropriate bodies will make the final decision as to whether the ECT has satisfactorily met the Teachers’ standards, based on the headteacher’s recommendation.

Our Appropriate Body Offer & Fees

Charges for the Early Career Programme will be based on the type of induction programme schools choose to follow for the Early Career Framework, as each of the three routes require different levels of fidelity checks and Quality Assurance.

Provider-Led

£200

per ECT per year
Includes:
School-Based Induction

£500

per school
+ £200 per ECT per year
In addition to Provider-Led:

In addition, the Hub will provide:

Ongoing communication and advice
Maintain regular communication via newsletters and be readily contactable by phone or email to answer queries and provide advice.
Training and induction support
Provide training and follow-up sessions for new induction tutors or schools requiring additional support.
Targeted school support
Where needs are identified, undertake joint observations with the induction tutor or mentor and support schools in developing and monitoring support plans through regular check-ins.
Online resources and guidance

Provide a comprehensive resource area with exemplar materials and walkthrough videos.

Appropriate Body Registration

Step 1

Register Early Career Teacher with the DfE

Note: If your school is only registering with the Appropriate Body, please go straight to step 3.

Step 2

Register with EDT for the Provider-led induction

Step 3

Register with the Appropriate Body

Our Experience

John Taylor has significant experience in Appropriate Body work.

We have been offering Appropriate Body services to schools since 2016, working annually with over 400 Early Career Teachers, not just taking care of their registration and validating a successful completion of the induction period, but offering informal support and guidance to schools and ECTs where problems have arisen or the ECT has been struggling.

Early Career Teachers
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Victoria Knight

Teaching School Hub Appropriate Body Lead

Jo-Ann Murphy

Appropriate Body Co-ordinator

What School Leaders and ECTs say

Discover what our trainees say about their journey, the support they received and how the programme helped them grow as teachers.
Good mix of activities, opportunity to discuss systems and answer questions. Opportunity to co-observe, talk to ECTs. I also appreciated the opportunity to discuss any areas of provision we wanted to tweak (such as quality assuring mentor meetings). A very useful visit which felt supportive and collaborative.
Victoria’s feedback was clear and constructive. The day went smoothly with no disruptions. This made it easy for all parties.
NPQ for Leading Teaching
I continue to be extremely grateful for the support you provide. The team responds extremely quickly to any issues that I raise and I feel completely supported through all aspects of the ECT AB process. The guidance you have provided to me in this instance is very gratefully received and gives me the confidence to appropriately support this ECT. Thank you.
Continued Professional Development

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Next Steps

If you have any questions, or wish to register an interest in becoming more involved.

Consider including a QR code to allow email recipients quick access (Parents, Local Community and Sixth Form students)

An example of an email footnote could look like this:
Do you know someone who is interested in training to teach? Send them this [insert QR code]

How to become a teacher
Routes into teaching
Provider specific

Include ‘Train to Teach’ signposting to local providers or DfE materials as an email footnote or signature strip.

Share these myths and misconceptions-busters about teacher training and teaching to inform potential applicants about the profession.

Offer Intensive Training & Practice (ITAP) placements to ITE providers (typically 1-2 days) to allow trainees to observe practices and apply learning.

Offer enhanced placements (1-5 days) as part of an ITE programme, focussing on a phase, type, or specialist area of education (e.g. PRU, Special School, EYFS, Post-16).

Contact us for a conversation to support meeting your school needs for how you wish to engage with Teacher Training:

Share positive stories, case studies and testimonials of colleagues and ex-trainees (associated with your school), showcasing career progression, opportunities and CPD.

Connect and share on socials (pathways and providers) to community networks through regular school comms (e.g., Newsletter, social media posts).
Other:

Follow and share content on your school accounts from these below to reach your community:

ITE providers in the West Midlands

Connect with ITE providers in the West Midlands – click here to access a map of local and national Accredited providers.

Connect with ITE providers on social media from the districts covered by the John Taylor Teaching School Hub region or in the immediate surrounding districts:

John Taylor SCITT
Reach2 SCITT
University of Derby
University of Staffordshire
St. Joseph’s College SCITT
Teach Derby/Teach Derbyshire
Barr Beacon SCITT
The Coventry SCITT
Arthur Terry SCITT/Hub
Loughborough University
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham City University
Contact your local Teaching School Hub & ITE providers to let them know you are interested and ask them who you can engage with/support, and how.

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ITE providers in the West Midlands

Connect with ITE providers in the West Midlands – click here to access a map of local and national Accredited providers.

Connect with ITE providers on social media from the districts covered by the John Taylor Teaching School Hub region or in the immediate surrounding districts:

John Taylor SCITT
Reach2 SCITT
University of Derby
University of Staffordshire
St. Joseph’s College SCITT (Stoke)
Teach Derby/Teach Derbyshire
Barr Beacon SCITT
The Coventry SCITT
Arthur Terry SCITT/Hub
Loughborough University
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham City University