Academic year 2022/23

ECF and NPQ starts

Data guidance

Published 2 March 2023

Description

This document describes the data included in the 'ECF and NPQs starts' release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data.

The methodology document should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

This transparency release contains information on the number of early career teachers (ECTs) and mentors participating in the Early Career Framework (ECF) induction programme and the number of national professional qualifications (NPQs) from the reformed suite of NPQs that were started in the academic year 2022 to 2023 to date. It also includes information on the number of NPQs from the 2017 suite of NPQs that were started and completed between the academic years 2017 to 2018 and 2021 to 2022. This release covers:

ECTs and mentors who have started the provider-led ECF-based induction since September 2022, broken down by region and school phase;
the number of DfE funded reformed NPQs started since September 2022, broken down by course type, region and school phase;
the number of DfE funded NPQs (2017 suite) started and completed between 2017 and autumn 2022, broken down by course type.

This release is based on the Department for Education's (DfE) Teacher CPD Service dataset, which consists of management information submitted by lead providers and Get Information about Schools (GIAS). GIAS is the department's register of educational establishments in England and Wales.

The underlying data files include national, regional, local authority, individual level and school level information for early career teachers and mentors participating in the ECF-based induction and other teachers and leaders who were taking an NPQ in England.

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

NPQs (2017 suite) 2022-23

Filename: npqs_2017_suite_2022-23.csv
Geographic levels: National; Regional
Time period: 2022/23
Content: The total number of funded NPQ starts, completions and the percentage of completed NPQ courses from the 2017 suite of NPQs between autumn 2017 and August 2022, broken down by course type.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
npq_course_type	NPQ (2017 suite) course type
npq_funded_completions	Number of funded NPQ (2017 suite) completions
npq_funded_starts	Number of funded NPQ (2017 suite) starts
percentage_completion	Percentage of funded NPQ (2017 suite) completions

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ECF 2022-23

Filename: ecf_2022-23.csv
Geographic levels: National; Regional
Time period: 2022/23
Content: The number of early career teachers participating in the provider-led and school-led ECF-based induction and the number of mentors participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction, broken down by region.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
phase_of_education	Phase of education of the school
total_ects_count_provider-led	Total number of ECTs starting provider-led ECF-based induction
total_mentors_count_provider-led	Total number of mentors trained for provider-led ECF-based induction

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Reformed NPQs

Filename: npqs_2022-23.csv
Geographic levels: National; Regional
Time period: 2022/23
Content: The number of funded NPQ starts from the reformed suite of NPQs, broken down by course type, region and school phase.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
npq_course_type	NPQ course type
npq_funded_starts	Number of funded NPQ starts
phase_of_education	Phase of education

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