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  • The ECTP 2025/26

    Published 09/06/25

    We’re working with Teach First to deliver the Early Career Training Programme (ECTP), a fully-funded, two-year package of structured training and guidance for early career teachers (ECTs).

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  • Let's go NPQs

    Published 09/06/25

    Registrations are open! – register now for the next cohorts of our NPQs.

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  • Expert Exchange 2025

    Published 04/06/25

    Come and join us for a dedicated afternoon examining the role of ITT/ECF Leadership in schools regionally.

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  • Registration open: Autumn 2025 NPQs

    Published 19/05/25

    Register Your Interest Today.

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  • Early Career Teacher Entitlement

    Published 20/03/25

    Did you know that from September 2025, building on the ECF, the Department for Education is introducing the Early Career Teacher Entitlement?

    The Early Career Teacher Entitlement will revise and improve the delivery of what we formerly referred to as the ECF programme, maintaining the grounding in evidence, to ensure the highest standards of professional development for new teachers.

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  • Improve literacy standards across your school.

    Published 11/02/25

    We’re excited to let you the next cohort of the Leading Literacy National Professional Qualifications will be launching this spring.

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  • Spring 2025 NPQs

    Published 04/12/24

    Applications are open! – there's a new and reformed NPQ framework with the next cohorts starting in spring 2025. Apply by 18 March 2025.

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  • FIVE UPDATES FOR AUTUMN 2024

    Published 19/10/24

    Autumn 2024 highlights at Northamptonshire Teaching School Hub.

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  • Changes to National Professional Qualification funding: what it means for you

    Published 21/05/24

    This article explains the recent changes to funding for the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualifications (NPQs). Find out what it means for you and your school, trust or educational setting.

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  • Have you heard about the new NPQ for SENCOs?

    Published 15/05/24

    New for spring 2024, the NPQ for SENCOs is the first NPQ to be designed for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators.

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  • Schools' Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference 2024: In review

    Published 18/03/24

    Brooke Weston Trust and Northamptonshire Teaching School Hub hosted the inaugural 'Northamptonshire Schools' Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference 2024' on March 12th. With the theme 'Rising to the Challenge,' 160 delegates from various organisations, including Multi-Academy Trusts, Schools, and local services, explored invaluable insights, strategies and discussions led by field experts.

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  • The impact of the ECF

    Published 18/03/24

    In the past three years, we have welcomed 1000 new entrants to the profession in the region who, because of the ECF:

    • are skilled, reflective practitioners, who can identify granular approaches that create effective learning,
    • that understand deeply the cognitive science of how pupils learn and how this applies to their classrooms and subjects, 
    • that understand the importance of inclusion and have developed strategies they can harness to meet the needs of all students,
    • who have the confidence in their practice, supported by regular feedback from their expert mentors.

    So, while there are no doubt drawbacks to the universality of the ECF, I believe that the framework has had a hugely positive impact. There is now, for the first time, an equity of access to evidence-based practice and a strength of practice growing across the region in the profession. The benefit of this for the young people across the school communities of Northamptonshire is reason for optimism.

    Northamptonshire Teaching School Hub is pleased to share two recent research publications into the impact of the ECF:

    1. ECF evaluation report published

    DfE has published the year 2  Evaluation of the national roll-out of the early career framework induction programmes (publishing.service.gov.uk) This contains an analysis of ECT and mentors experiences through the first cohort of ECF trainees.

    1. Developing and Retaining Talented Mentors: How Leaders Can Make Their School More Attractive for Teachers and Better for Students

    This report (Interim Research Report #3: Developing and Retaining Talented Mentors) arises from the UCL Centre of Educational Leadership led study The Impact of the Early Career Framework (ECF) programme of the work, engagement, wellbeing and retention of teachers: a longitudinal study, 2021 -2026.

    Interested to learn more about the findings in this report? Join this FREE event, led by the UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, to hear panellists discuss research from the study and explore how leaders can make their school more attractive for teachers and better for students.

    Date and time: 17 April 2024, 5:00pm – 6:30pm

    Panellists

    Chair: Dr Deborah Outhwaite (BELMAS Chair)

    Professor Caroline Daly, Professor of Teacher Education, UCL IOE

    Dr Vanessa Ogden CBE, CEO of Mulberry Schools Trust, TSHC member

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