Once registered by their school induction tutor on the DfE’s Manage training for early career teachers service, early career teachers and mentors were asked to provide their Teacher Reference Number (TRN), date of birth, and National Insurance number (optional). These details, along with their name were used to validate them against their DQT record and confirm their eligibility for the training.
NPQ applicants registered their own details with the DfE Register for an NPQ service, providing their Teacher Reference Number (TRN), date of birth, and (optionally) National Insurance number. These details, along with their name were used to validate them against their DQT record and confirm their eligibility for the training.
The registration details were passed to training providers along with a unique training ID. If a training provider could provide sufficient evidence that a participant had engaged with the training programme, the provider made a declaration against the participant record in the DfE service.
These provider declarations were sampled to ensure that providers held evidence for all declarations made.