The Early Career Framework (ECF) reforms set out a new requirement for a two-year programme of support and development for new teachers after they complete initial teacher training. The ECF was released in January 2019, and became available to new teachers in early roll-out regions and to a select number of other schools from September 2020. It will be compulsory for all schools to provide a two-year, ECF-based programme of support for their newly qualified teachers from September 2021, either by engaging with government-funded training or through one of two approaches to delivering the ECF themselves - further details on this are provided below. Schools will therefore need to be thinking about their approach over the coming months, and to support this, this page contains links to everything you need to know about the ECF, including information and resources around it, and blogs, articles and research presenting different views on it. This page has been updated with the latest in
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