Heads Up 23 September 2022

HEADS UP

Warwickshire LA & Teaching School Hubs continue to offer Appropriate Body services to all schools across Warwickshire.

Warwickshire LA Appropriate Body support schools, headteacher, tutors and ECTs providing an independent quality assurance role within the statutory induction process. Appropriate Bodies monitor the support of the ECT and their assessments, making the final decision as to whether the ECT has satisfactorily met the Teachers’ Standards.  

The DfE intend to reform the AB sector so that Teaching School Hubs (TSHs) will become the main providers of AB services and Local Authorities will no longer carry out this role. This will bring clearer accountability, and greater consistency and quality of service for schools through a smaller, more regulated AB sector. This reform is expected to commence for ECTs starting in September 2023. 

Appropriate bodies have been organised by RSC areas, but schools can choose an appropriate body in any area. Please find here more information related to the 3 Teaching School Hubs, their districts within Warwickshire, links to their AB and ECF offers and the schools within each TSHub geographical region. 

The Statutory teacher induction: appropriate bodies list has been updated in August with AB contact details and as soon as the DfE publish further details of intended reforms of Appropriate Bodies we pass this information on to schools. Also published on the GOV.UK ECT Collection webpage is the Backfill payments for ECF mentor training allocations for schools. 

ECT and NQTs can be registered with Warwickshire LA Appropriate Body via ECT Manager Warwickshire. A teaching school hub cannot be the appropriate body for an ECT whom it employs, or who has served any part of their induction at that school.  For ECTs starting in September 2022 registration must be completed and upload to the TRA by the 19 October 2022.  

The first Warwickshire LA Appropriate Body ECT Welcome meeting for 2022-2023 will be on Tuesday 20 September 16:00 to 17:30. Book online via  ECT Manager Warwickshire or email ECT@warwickshire.gov.uk or telephone 01926 74 2089 if you have any questions or queries. 

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