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Academic year 2025/26

Teacher and leader development: ECTE and NPQs

Statistics on ECTs participating in the Early Career Teacher Entitlement and teachers and leaders participating in National Professional Qualifications.

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  • ECTE mentors trained 2025-26

    Local authority, National, Regional

    The number of mentors trained to support ECTE participants during their provider-led ECTE based induction programme, broken down by age, ethnicity, experiences, sex role and working pattern.

    Number of rows
    960
    Indicators
    • Mentors trained
    • Share of mentors trained
    Filters
    • Group name
    Time period
    2021/22 to 2025/26
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  • ECTE participants 2025-26

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Counts of total and SWC-matched ECTs participating in ECTE-based induction, by programme type (provider-led and school-led), geography (national, regional, and local authority), school and pupil characteristics.

    Number of rows
    3,531
    Indicators
    • Characteristic share
    • Characteristic share SWC matched
    • ECTE participants
    Filters
    • Group name
    • Program Type
    Time period
    2021/22 to 2025/26
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  • ECTE retention 2025-26

    National, Regional

    ECTs participating in ECTE-based induction who were retained in the SWC after one year, two years, three years and four years, broken down by program type (provider-led and school-led), geography, school and pupil characteristics.

    Number of rows
    802
    Indicators
    • ECTs retained after four years
    • ECTs retained after one year
    • ECTs retained after three years
    Filters
    • Group name
    • Program Type
    Time period
    2021/22 to 2025/26
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  • NPQ completion 2025-26

    National, Regional

    The number of NPQ starts, completions, passes, the completion rate and the pass rate broken down by funding, course type, geography, school and pupil characteristics.

    Number of rows
    816
    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 2025-26

    National

    The number NPQ starts and participants, the total teaching workforce and the share of the teaching workforce starting an NPQ, broken down by funding, course type and individual and school characteristics.

    Number of rows
    80
    Indicators
    • Schools with any NPQ starts
    • Schools with funded starts
    • Schools with non-funded starts
    Filters
    • Cumulative/ discrete
    • Group name
    Time period
    2021/22 to 2025/26
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  • Golden thread 2025-26

    Local authority, National, Regional

    Cumulative counts and percentages of the SWC teaching workforce participating in the Golden Thread (ECTE induction, ECTE mentor training, NPQs), with breakdowns by region and local authority, as well as by school and pupil characteristics.

    Number of rows
    1,039
    Indicators
    • Any ECTE participants
    • Any NPQ participants
    • ECTE mentor and NPQ overlap workforce share
    Filters
    • Group name
    Time period
    2021/22 to 2025/26
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  • NPQ participants 2025-26

    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
    3,450
    Indicators
    • NPQ leadership workforce share
    • NPQ participants
    • NPQ participants SWC matched
    Filters
    • Funding
    • Group name
    Time period
    2021/22 to 2025/26
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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: ECTE and NPQs' release’s underlying data files. 

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 Teacher Entitlement (ECTE) 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 2025/26. 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 inductions 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 ECTE-based induction and other teachers and leaders who were taking an NPQ in England.

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Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Analysis Team

Email: Jay.KHAMIS@EDUCATION.GOV.UK
Contact name: Mr Jay Khamis

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