ECTE participants 2025-26
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Counts of total and SWC-matched ECTs participating in ECTE-based induction, by programme type (provider-led and school-led), geography (national, regional, and local authority), school and pupil characteristics.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Teachers and school workforce
- Publication
- Teacher and leader development: ECTE and NPQs
- Release
- Academic year 2025/26
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 3,531
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Characteristic share
- Characteristic share SWC matched
- ECTE participants
- Filters
- Group name
- Program Type
- Time period
- 2021/22 to 2025/26
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_name | country_code | region_name | region_code | la_name | old_la_code | new_la_code | programme | breakdown | group_name | total_ects_count | cumulative_ects | count_swfc_ects | teacher_workforce | breakdown_percent_ect | breakdown_percent_swfc_ect | programme_percent_ect | programme_percent_swfc_ect | percent_swfc_ects_of_workforce |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202122 | Academic year | National | England | E92000001 | Overall | Overall | Overall | 28912 | 28912 | 24905 | 510265 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 4.9 | |||||
| 202223 | Academic year | National | England | E92000001 | Overall | Overall | Overall | 28015 | 56927 | 23189 | 511860 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 4.5 | |||||
| 202324 | Academic year | National | England | E92000001 | Overall | Overall | Overall | 24915 | 81842 | 19462 | 511951 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 3.8 | |||||
| 202425 | Academic year | National | England | E92000001 | Overall | Overall | Overall | 22998 | 104840 | 18065 | 511952 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 3.5 | |||||
| 202526 | Academic year | National | England | E92000001 | Overall | Overall | Overall | 22473 | 127313 | 15292 | 511557 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 3 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown_percent_ect | Characteristic share |
| breakdown_percent_swfc_ect | Characteristic share SWC matched |
| count_swfc_ects | ECTE participants matched to SWC |
| cumulative_ects | ECTE participants - Cumulative |
| group_name | Group name |
Footnotes
- Early career teachers (ECTs) refers to those who started an ECTE-based induction.
- The 2025/26 characteristic volumes and percentages are provisional. These will be updated next year to include additional characteristics for ECTs who are missing from the current 2024 SWC but appear in next year’s SWC. This will reduce the number of unknowns.
- The breakdown for academies also includes free schools.
- The 'Other' category includes all-through schools covering nursery, primary, and secondary levels.
- Some independent special schools are eligible for NPQ funding under Section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014. These schools are included in the 'special schools' category
- The ‘Other types’ category includes city technology colleges, further education establishments, sixth form centres, special post-16 institutions and universities. It also includes non-maintained special schools and some independent special schools eligible for funding under Section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014.
- The appearance of 'low' in the table denotes that the data has rounded to 0 but is not 0.
- Pupil premium decile is a measure of disadvantage. A school is allocated funding for pupils that meet the pupil premium criteria (opens in new tab). Data is collected on the percentage of pupils within each school that qualify. In this publication we look at the decile split of schools in terms of this pupil premium percentage.
- The appearance of 'c' in the table indicates that the data has been suppressed due to low counts.
- 2025/26 workforce share figures will be updated once next year's school workforce census becomes available as some ECTs are recruited after the collection.
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