Registering new ECTs – The DfE portal is now open!
If you have new ECTs starting in September 2023, you can now register them via the DfE portal, matching them with their mentors, and also register them with our Appropriate Body service. Following feedback to the DfE, we are assured the registration processes on the DfE portal are more intuitive and streamlined than in previous years and there is more functionality too.
Our friendly Five Counties team will be holding a Thursday lunchtime online drop-in session at 12.30pm each week in September for those with any registration questions – do let us know if you’d like to come along by emailing us: [email protected]
We are here to support you if you are having any difficulties or you are using the registration process for the first time – come along to a drop-in session or we can guide you through with an individual Teams call.
As we move into recruitment season, you may have appointed, or be considering appointing ECTs to your school. As a reminder, here is the 1,2.3 of registration.
Registering new starters: If you do have a new ECT who is starting with you in September, remember to follow our three steps to ECT registration so you have fully signed up to each service.
Please note the DfE portal for ECT registrations will only allow registrations for September for ECTs who will be in the 23/24 year when they have confirmation of QTS.
- Register your new ECTs and their mentors on the DfE portal and link them together making sure they are in the correct year. Those who have started induction elsewhere before 23/24 will need to be placed in either 21 or 22, depending on when they commenced their induction.
- Sign up with us at the Five Counties TSHA who deliver Ambition or EDT’s CPD programmes locally
- Ensure you add your ECTs to ECT manager, our online system for the Appropriate Body service.
Registering your ECT with an Appropriate Body (AB) is a legal requirement and is separate to our ECT programmes offered through Ambition or EDT. Our CPD programmes are your ECT’s entitlement to professional development whereas the AB service is statutory and separate. The AB service acts as a quality assurance and support function, ensuring the support your ECT is receiving is checked periodically, progress reviews and the two annual reports against the teacher standards at the end of the first and second year are collated, and ongoing registration and updates are sent to the DfE’s Teacher Regulation Agency, the TRA.
To register your ECTs and mentors with our online AB system ECT manager, choose either Bristol / North Somerset / Somerset, or South Glos / BANES, depending on where your school is located. If you are using ECT manager for the first time and your school is not yet listed, just let us know by email and we can add your school to the system: [email protected]