Appropriate body service

Support early career teachers throughout their induction process

Appropriate Body Service
Entrust offers a comprehensive service for supporting early career teachers throughout their induction process as the appropriate body.Our serviceOur support offer includes:

Registration and inclusion on the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) early career teacher database.

Receipt, processing, monitoring and quality assurance of assessment forms.

Fidelity checks, monitoring and quality assurance of the induction programme.

An all-encompassing handbook for early career teachers and tutors.

Dedicated helpline, named contact and email contact for induction tutors and ECTs.

Confidential advice and guidance from knowledgeable and experienced consultants.

Training for both the tutor and the early career teacher to ensure understanding of the new statutory induction guidance and roles and responsibilities.

Guidance for induction coordinators and tutors.

Final decision on whether the early career teacher has made satisfactory progress against the Teachers’ Standards, based on the headteacher’s/principal’s recommendations.

Notification of completion of ECT induction to the TRA.

Online management toolTo enhance your management of the early career teacher induction process, we include in our offer a nationally recognised online system which will enable you to access and complete the assessment requirements quickly and easily.

Quick and easy access to view information about your ECT’s induction year, for example when their next assessment is due, when they are due to finish, as well as view previous assessments you have completed.

Part time early career teachers’ assessment due dates are automatically calculated, and assessments added to the system at the correct dates.

Automated reminders when assessments are due for completing online.

Secure online submission of assessments.

ECTs’ and tutors’ details can be quickly and easily updated.

Automatic TRA employer access check during registration to ensure that early career teachers have QTS Easy access to materials to support the induction process.

Everything stored permanently online for you – no need for printing or posting of assessments and registration forms.

Online, so it’s accessible anywhere anytime, making it easy to save your work and come back to it later.

Secure, encrypted, password protected system, backed up regularly so all of your data is safe.

Technical help readily available, both through an online helpdesk and telephone support.

Get in touch

If you’d like to learn more or register your ECT, please contact us using our online enquiry form.