Appropriate Body
Welcome to the North West London Teaching School Hub’s Appropriate Body Service.
As a well-established and experienced Appropriate Body, we offer a platinum service for Early Career Teachers. We work with schools across our region (Brent, Barnet and Enfield) and beyond to provide specialist support and guidance. We have a proven track record for delivering an efficient service for all schools, Heads, Induction Tutors and ECTs.
Our dedicated team of professionals are committed to providing high quality, timely support and advise ensuring ECTs receive the highest standards for teacher induction.
As part of this service we:
- Provide high quality training and support for Induction Tutors and Head teachers.
- Host a “Welcome and Induction Briefing‟ event for ECTs Autumn/Spring/Summer.
- Provide access to an online system (ECT Manager) that allows Headteachers, Induction Tutors and ECTs to track and record ECTs’ progress and complete statutory assessments.
- Make decisions on the outcomes of statutory induction for ECTs and submit reports to the Teaching Regulation Agency.
- Give expert advice and guidance where ECTs are a cause for concern or at risk of failure and provide additional bespoke support.
- Provide all ECTs and Induction Tutors with an Induction Handbook with key information to support the induction process, please Click Here.
- Provide access to up-to-date guidance documents and induction support material.
- Monitor all termly Progress Reviews and End of Year formal assessments.
- Provide quality assurance of assessment forms, against the Teachers’ Standards.
- Offer phone/email support for Headteachers and Induction Tutors from experienced and knowledgeable Induction Leads.
- Provide expert advice and knowledge regarding a school’s statutory obligations for ECTs, including formal complaints or challenges.
- Provide a dedicated point of contact within the Teaching School Hub for all Appropriate Body induction and ECT queries
Appropriate Body Administrator Usra Rahimi, email: abs@northwestlondontsh.org.uk
For complaints in relation to the NWLTSH Appropriate Body Service, please see the NWLTSH Appropriate Body Service Complaints Policy and Procedures here.
