This section provides information on the number of early career teachers participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction and the percentage of early career teachers participating in the provider-led and school-led ECF-based induction in the academic year 2021 to 2022. The figures are broken down by region as well as school and individual-level characteristics. Whilst the main focus in this section is on early career teachers, the underlying data files also include breakdowns for mentors who were participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction.
Schools can choose how they want to deliver ECF-based induction. They can use a provider-led approach whereby a DfE funded training provider and a delivery partner provide ECF-based training directly to the early career teachers and train mentors on how to support early career teachers. The training programmes designed by these lead providers are accredited by DfE and quality assured by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) (opens in a new tab). Alternatively, schools can use freely-available DfE accredited materials to deliver their own induction programme or design and deliver their own induction programme based on the ECF (school-led approach).
In total, 93.0% of early career teachers who were in the School Workforce Census (SWC) in 2021 and started their induction from 1 September 2021 participated in the provider-led ECF-based induction; 5.4% participated in the school-led induction based on the ECF. The remaining 1.6% of early career teachers were indicated as undertaking the provider-led ECF-based training, but the department has not received confirmation that they have started the training.
Region
London and the South East had the largest number of early career teachers starting the provider-led ECF-based induction, 4,868 and 4,414 respectively.
The North East had the smallest number of early career teachers undertaking the provider-led ECF-based induction (1,093), but this mainly reflects the fact that the North East had the smallest number of early career teachers in England. The percentage of early career teachers who started the provider-led ECF-based induction in the North East (94.7%) was higher than the national average of 93.0%.
The percentage of early career teachers who started the provider-led ECF-based induction was highest in the East Midlands (95.7%) and smallest in London (88.1%). London has the highest percentage of ECTs starting the school-led ECF-based induction (10.3%).
School type
The majority of early career teachers participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction were based at an academy (15,725), followed by early career teachers who were at a local authority maintained school (8,720).
The percentage of early career teachers who started the provider-led ECF-based induction was similar for academies (92.9%) and local authority maintained schools (92.8%).
Special schools (95.0%) and free schools (93.4%) had the highest percentage of early career teachers participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction. Data on independent schools is limited, as teachers based at independent schools are out of scope for the School Workforce Census (SWC) collection. All 20 early career teachers who were included in the SWC in 2021 and based at an independent school were participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction.
School phase
The majority of early career teachers started the provider-led ECF-based induction in secondary schools (13,837), followed by primary schools (11,856).
The percentage of early career teachers participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction is higher in primary schools (94.5%) than in secondary schools (91.6%).
Most schools in the 'Other' category are special schools for which phase is set as 'not applicable' in GIAS. The percentage of ECTs at ‘Other’ schools who were participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction is 94.4%.
Working hours
The majority of early career teachers starting the provider-led ECF-based induction were working full-time (20,809), and 1,069 were working part-time.
93.0% of full-time early career teachers were participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction, compared to 91.4% among part-time early career teachers.
Age group
The largest groups of early career teachers undertaking the provider-led ECF-based induction were under 25 years old (9,454) and between 25 and 29 years old (6,686).
There were 493 early career teachers participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction who were between 50 and 59 years old and 22 who were older than 60.
The percentage of early career teachers starting the provider-led ECF-based induction was the highest among those under 25 years old (93.2%), followed by early career teachers who were between 30 and 39 years old (93.3%). It was lowest among early career teachers who were between 50 and 59 years old (89.7%, based on 493 early career teachers) and older than 60 (88.2%, based on 22 early career teachers).
The underlying data files include age group breakdowns of mentors who are participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction. The largest group of mentors were 30 to 39 years old (10,175 mentors, representing 40.9% of all mentors), followed by 27.0% of mentors who were between 30 and 49 years old (6,732), and 16.9% of mentors who were 25 to 29 years old (4,196).
Gender
The majority of early career teachers starting the provider-led ECF-based induction were female (17,231), compared to 5,826 male early career teachers starting the provider-led ECF-based induction.
The percentage of early career teachers participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction was similar for male and female early career teachers, at 92.3% and 93.2% respectively.
Ethnicity
The majority of early career teachers participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction identified as White (16,543), followed by 1,401 who identified as Asian or Asian British and 653 who identified as Black or Black British. Information on ethnicity was either refused, unknown or not yet obtained for 7,679 early career teachers undertaking the provider-led ECF-based induction.
93.4% of early career teachers who identified as White were participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction. This was lower for early career teachers who identified as Asian or Asian British (89.6%) or Black or Black British (89.9%).