Academic year 2022/23

Teacher and Leader development: ECF and NPQs

Data guidance

Published 19 July 2023

Description

This document describes the data included in the 'Teacher and Leader development: ECF and NPQs' 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 release contains information on early career teachers (ECTs) and mentors participating in the Early Career Framework (ECF) induction programme and other teachers and leaders who were taking a national professional qualification (NPQ) from the reformed suite of NPQs in the academic year 2021 to 2022. This release covers:

- the types of schools and locations in which early career teachers started their inductions and other teachers were taking an NPQ;
- the individual-level characteristics of early career teachers who started their induction and other teachers who were taking an NPQ.

This release is based on the Department for Education's (DfE) Teacher CPD Service dataset, which consists of management information submitted by lead providers, the School Workforce Census (SWC) and Get Information about Schools (GIAS). The SWC collects information from schools and local authorities on the school workforce in state-funded schools in England, and 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.

File formats and conventions

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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 - Total Participants - 2022-23

• Filename: teacher_leader_development_npqs_2022-23.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2022/23
• Content:

  The number of funded and non-funded NPQ starts, the number of unique funded NPQ participants, the total teaching workforce and the percentage of the teaching workforce undertaking a funded NPQ, broken down by course type, region, local authority, school phase, school type, age group, gender, ethnicity, grade and working hours.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
group_name	Group Name
npq_funded_starts	Number of funded NPQ starts
npq_non_funded_starts	Number of non-funded NPQ starts
npq_unique_funded_participants	Number of funded unique NPQ participants
npq_unique_funded_participants_swc_eligible	Number of funded unique NPQ participants from SWC eligible school types
percent_workforce_npq_participation	Percentage of total teaching workforce who started a funded NPQ
teaching_workforce_headcount_swc21	Total teaching workforce in SWC 2021

Footnotes

1. There were two new NPQ courses, Early Year Leadership and Leading Literacy, which started in September 2022, so there is no data for these courses in 2021/22.
2. These figures include NPQ participants in non-school settings.
3. 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. These figures include NPQ participants in non-school settings.
4. The 'Other' category also includes special schools, alternative provision, city technology colleges, further education establishments and sixth form centres. 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. These figures include NPQ participants in non-school settings.
5. The ‘Other types’ category includes city technology colleges, further education establishments, sixth form centres and special post-16 institutions. These figures include NPQ participants in non-school settings.
6. 'Other types' of schools are excluded from the graph as the small number of teachers in the School Workforce Census in this category makes the percentages inaccurate. These figures include NPQ participants in non-school settings.
7. The appearance of 'z' in the table indicates that the metric is not applicable to this category, as no teachers in this group appear in the School Workforce Census.

ECF - Total Participants - 2022-23

• Filename: teacher_leader_development_ecf_2022-23.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2022/23
• Content:

  The number and percentage of early career teachers participating in the provider-led and school-led ECF-based induction, the training completion rate for early career teachers on the provider-led induction, and the number of mentors participating in the provider-led ECF-based induction, broken down by appropriate body type, region, local authority, school phase, school type, gender, ethnicity, age group and working hours.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
count_swfc_ects	Number of ECTs in SWC
count_swfc_ects_pending_confirmation_provider_led	Number of ECTs in SWC who started provider-led ECF-based induction - Pending confirmation
count_swfc_ects_provider_led	Number of ECTs in SWC who started provider-led ECF-based induction
count_swfc_ects_school_led	Number of ECTs in SWC who started school-led ECF-based induction
group_name	Group Name
percent_swfc_ects_pending_confirmation_provider_led	Percentage of ECTs who started provider-led ECF-based induction - Pending confirmation
percent_swfc_ects_provider_led	Percentage of ECTs who started provider-led ECF-based induction
percent_swfc_ects_school_led	Percentage of ECTs who started school-led ECF-based induction
total_ects_count_provider_led	Total number of ECTs who started provider-led ECF-based induction
total_mentors_trained_count_provider_led	Total number of mentors trained for provider-led ECF-based induction

Footnotes

1. The 'Other' category also includes special schools, alternative provision, city technology colleges, further education establishments and sixth form centres. 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. These figures include NPQ participants in non-school settings.
2. The ‘Other types’ category includes city technology colleges, further education establishments, sixth form centres and special post-16 institutions. These figures include NPQ participants in non-school settings.
3. The appearance of 'z' in the table indicates that the metric is not applicable to this category, as no teachers in this group appear in the School Workforce Census.