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Guidance

Find an appropriate body

Guidance to help find an appropriate body if you’re responsible for statutory teacher induction in a school or college.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
26 August 2021
Last updated:
30 September 2026
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  1. Updated the contact details for Pathfinder Teaching School Hub and Rainbow Teaching School Hub.

  2. Reviewed and updated contact information, 2 bodies are national.

  3. Updated the contact details for NELTSH Teaching School Hub, L.E.A.D. Teaching School Hub and Saffron Teaching School Hub in 'Find an appropriate body'.

  4. Updated the contact details for North West London Teaching School Hub, South Central Teaching School Hub, and Swindon and Wiltshire Teaching School Hub in 'Find an appropriate body'.

  5. We have updated the list of appropriate bodies for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. Teaching school hubs are now the main provider of appropriate body services, except for 2 specialist appropriate body services for some independent and overseas schools.

  6. Updated the list 'Find an appropriate body' to include new links and contact details.

  7. Updated list of appropriate bodies to include new links and contact details.

  8. Added an email address for North East London Teaching School Hub and updated the email address for NELT Teaching School Hub.

  9. Updated to show that teaching school hubs will become the main provider of appropriate body services. We have shown 85 organisations that can register early career teachers from 1 September 2023. Also updated 8 email addresses.

  10. Details of appropriate bodies and teaching school hubs have been updated. New columns 'School name (where applicable)' and 'Areas covered' have been added.

  11. Added contact details to the list of appropriate bodies.

  12. Bradford Teaching School Hub is now called Exceed Teaching School Hub.

  13. Added information about the main areas covered by each teaching school hub and other appropriate bodies.

  14. First published.

Applies to England

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Schools, colleges and other organisations carrying out inductions should use this guidance to find an appropriate body for their statutory teacher induction.

Appropriate bodies:

  • assure the quality of statutory teacher induction
  • provide data to the Teaching Regulation Agency to record the progress of early career teachers

Headteachers are responsible for:

  • registering every early career teacher serving induction in their school with an appropriate body before induction begins
  • choosing an appropriate body, including in circumstances where their current appropriate body stops operating

The statutory guidance for induction for early career teachers (England) explains more about the role of appropriate bodies in the induction process.

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