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Academic year 2024/25
Teacher and leader development: ECF and NPQs
Data guidance
Published
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 from the academic year 2021/22 to 2024/25. 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.
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.
ECF participants 2024-25
Filename
teacher_leader_development_ecf_2024_25.csv
Geographic levels
Local authority; National; Regional
Time period
2021/22 to 2024/25
Content
The number of total and SWC-matched ECTs participating in ECF-based induction broken down by programme type (provider-led and school-led), region, local authority, school phase, school type, sex, ethnicity, age group and working pattern.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
breakdown_percent_ect
Characteristic percentage
breakdown_percent_swfc_ect
SWC matched characterisitc percentage
count_swfc_ects
SWC matched early career teachers
cumulative_ects
Cumulative early career teachers
group_name
Group Name
programme
Program Type
programme_percent_ect
Programme type percentage
programme_percent_swfc_ect
SWC matched programme type percentage
total_ects_count
Early career teachers
Footnotes
Early career teacher (ECTs) refers to those who started an ECF-based induction.
The 'Other' category includes all-through schools covering nursery, primary, and secondary levels.
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.
Percentages are based only on known characteristics; unknowns are excluded from the calculations.
The 2024/25 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 number of new mentors trained who support ECF participants during their provider-led ECF induction programme, broken down by age, ethnicity, sex, experience, grade and working pattern.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
breakdown_percent_mentor
Percentage of mentors trained
group_name
Group Name
total_mentors_trained_count_provider_led
Mentors trained
Footnotes
Percentages are based only on known characteristics; unknowns are excluded from the calculations.
ECTs participating in ECF-based induction who were retained in the SWC after one year, two years and three years, broken down by program type, region, school phase, school type, age group, sex, ethnicity, grade and working pattern.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
count_one_year_retention
ECTs retained after one year
count_swfc_ects
ECTs starting induction
count_three_year_retention
ECTs retained after three years
count_two_year_retention
ECTs retained after two years
group_name
Group Name
percent_one_year_retention
Percentage of ECTs retained after one year
percent_three_year_retention
Percentage of ECTs retained after three years
percent_two_year_retention
Percentage of ECTs retained after two years
programme
Induction Programme Type
Footnotes
Early career teacher (ECTs) refers to those who started an ECF-based induction.
The 'Other' category includes all-through schools covering nursery, primary, and secondary levels.
The appearance of 'u' in the table indicates observation of low reliability due to certain subgroups of population having fewer than 30 individuals
The number of ECF participants, total number of teachers in the workforce, and percentage of teachers in the workforce each year who have participated or are participating in ECF-based induction training, broken down by programme type.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
number_teachers
Teachers in the SWC
number_teachers_ecf
ECF participants
percent_teachers_ecf
Percentage of teaching workforce
programme
Group Name
Footnotes
Early career teacher (ECTs) refers to those who started an ECF-based induction.
The number NPQ starts and unique participants, the total teaching workforce and the percentage of the teaching workforce undertaking a NPQ, broken down by funding, course type and individual and school characteristics.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
funding
Funding
group_name
Group Name
npq_starts
NPQ starts
npq_unique_participants
Unique NPQ participants
npq_unique_participants_swc_eligible
Unique NPQ participants SWC matched
percent_workforce_npq_participation
Percentage of teaching workforce
teaching_workforce_headcount_swc
Teaching workforce
Footnotes
The 'Other' category includes all-through schools covering nursery, primary, and secondary levels.
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.
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.
Percentages are based only on known characteristics; unknowns are excluded from the calculations.
NPQ funded and non-funded participants are calculated independently and may not sum to the total participants figure due to a small number of individuals who started both funded and non-funded NPQs in the same year.
The number of NPQ starts, completions, passes, the completion rate and the pass rate broken down by funding, 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
funding
Funding
group_name
Group Name
npq_completed
NPQ completions
npq_passed
NPQ passes
npq_starts
NPQ starts
percentage_completion_rate
Completion rate
percentage_pass_rate
Pass rate
Footnotes
The completion rate is the percentage of starts that have completed; NPQs can take up to 22 months to complete so the reporting is lagged by two years.
The pass rate is the percentage of completions where the participant has passed.
The appearance of 'u' in the table indicates observation of low reliability due to certain subgroups of population having fewer than 30 individuals
The total number of publicly funded schools and the number and percentage of schools who have had an employee who started a NPQ, broken down by funding, school type and phase.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
cum_disc
Cumulative/ Discrete
funded_npq_schools
Schools with funded starts
group_name
Group Name
non_funded_npq_schools
Schools with non-funded starts
npq_schools
Schools with any starts
perc_funded_npq_schools
Percentage of schools with funded starts
perc_non_funded_npq_schools
Percentage of schools with non-funded starts
perc_npq_schools
Percentage of schools with any starts
total_schools
Total schools
Footnotes
Schools are based on the number of publicly funded schools and 16 to 19 educational organisations in England and are ‘open’ or ‘open, but proposed to close’ in each academic year.
The number of NPQ participants, number of teachers in the workforce, and the percentage of teachers in the workforce each year who have started a reformed NPQ since 2021, broken down by funding.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below: