Academic year 2024/25

Teacher and leader development: ECF and NPQs

Statistics on ECTs participating in the Early Career Framework and teachers and leaders participating in reformed National Professional Qualifications.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 10 July 2025

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• ECF participants 2024-25

  Local authority, National, Regional

  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.

  • Number of rows: 3,112
  • Indicators:
    • Characteristic percentage
    • Cumulative early career teachers
    • Early career teachers
  • Filters:
    • Group Name
    • Program Type
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2024/25

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• ECF new mentors trained 2024-25

  Local authority, National, Regional

  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.

  • Number of rows: 776
  • Indicators:
    • Mentors trained
    • Percentage of mentors trained
  • Filters:
    • Group Name
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2024/25

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• ECF retention 2024-25

  National, Regional

  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.

  • Number of rows: 432
  • Indicators:
    • ECTs retained after one year
    • ECTs retained after three years
    • ECTs retained after two years
  • Filters:
    • Group Name
    • Induction Programme Type
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24

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• ECF workforce coverage 2024-25

  National

  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.

  • Number of rows: 12
  • Indicators:
    • ECF participants
    • Percentage of teaching workforce
    • Teachers in the SWC
  • Filters:
    • Group Name
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2024/25

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• NPQ participants 2024-25

  Local authority, National, Regional

  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.

  • Number of rows: 2,652
  • Indicators:
    • NPQ starts
    • Percentage of teaching workforce
    • Teaching workforce
  • Filters:
    • Funding
    • Group Name
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2024/25

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• NPQ completions 2024-25

  National, Regional

  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.

  • Number of rows: 660
  • Indicators:
    • Completion rate
    • NPQ completions
    • NPQ passes
  • Filters:
    • Funding
    • Group Name
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2024/25

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• NPQ school coverage 2024-25

  National

  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.

  • Number of rows: 72
  • Indicators:
    • Percentage of schools with any starts
    • Percentage of schools with funded starts
    • Percentage of schools with non-funded starts
  • Filters:
    • Cumulative/ Discrete
    • Group Name
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2024/25

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• NPQ workforce 2024-25

  National

  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.

  • Number of rows: 12
  • Indicators:
    • NPQ participants
    • Percentage of teaching workforce
    • Teachers in the SWC
  • Filters:
    • Group Name
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2024/25

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

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.

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