Funding for time off timetable for early career teachers and mentors who participated in the national roll-out of the early career framework reforms
Guidance for schools and local authorities on funding to support the national roll-out of the early career framework (ECF) reforms from September 2021.
Applies to England
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This guidance is for:
- local authorities
- school leaders
- school teachers
- governing bodies and their representatives
Early career framework (ECF) year 2 time off timetable funding is paid after the end of the summer of the second year of the early career teacher’s (ECT) induction.
This funding covers the cost of giving each ECT in year 2 of induction:
- 5% off timetable for induction activities including ECF based training and mentor sessions
- a dedicated mentor, based on 20 hours of mentoring in year 2 of induction
This funding is linked to the ECT and paid to the school who has registered the ECT as undergoing their ECF training at that school in year 2 of their induction.
Conditions of grant
This guidance sets out the terms and conditions applied to the funding for schools that signed up for and participated in the national roll-out of the ECF reforms from September 2021.
Allocations
You can view the revised academic year 2022 to 2023 early career teacher and mentor time off timetable grant allocations spreadsheet above. This updated spreadsheet includes all corrective allocations.
We have published the academic year 2023 to 2024 early career teacher and mentor time off timetable grant allocations spreadsheet above.
Payments
Academic year 2022 to 2023 allocation payments were made to local authorities for maintained schools at the end of July 2023 and directly to academies at the start of August 2023.
We have now made all payments for the academic year 2022 to 2023, which ensures all eligible schools and organisations not captured in the summer 2023 payment window have been paid.
Allocation payments for the 2023 to 2024 academic year will be made to local authorities for maintained schools at the end of November 2024 and directly to academies at the start of December 2024.
Further details
For any further enquiries you can contact: [email protected]
Updates to this page
Published 14 February 2023Last updated 25 November 2024 + show all updates
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We have added the early career teacher and mentor time off timetable grant allocations spreadsheet for 2023 to 2024 and revised the 2022 to 2023 allocations spreadsheet.
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We have updated the dates for when payments will be made to local authorities and academies.
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We have updated the 'Early career framework (ECF) based induction year 2 time off timetable conditions of grant' to advise allocation payments for 2024 will be made to local authorities for maintained schools and directly to academies from the end of the academic year 2023 to 2024.
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We have published an updated academic year 2022 to 2023 funding for time off timetable for early career teachers (ECT) and mentor grant allocations spreadsheet, which details allocations updated in December 2023. We have updated wording in the 'Allocations' and 'Payments' sections on this landing page to reflect this allocation update.
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We have updated the 'Payments' section on the landing page to advise the sweep up payment will now be made early 2024.
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Early career framework (ECF)-based induction year 2 time off timetable conditions of grant - we have updated the 'Payments' section to advise users of the payment process for year 2 early career teachers. We have published the early career framework (ECF)-based induction year 2 time off timetable grant allocations July 2023 spreadsheet.
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First published.