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Early Career Teachers

All new Early Career Teachers (ECTs) need to be registered with a Teaching School Hub (TSH) Appropriate Body (AB).

Three TSHs work within Suffolk, and the Department for Education (DfE) has specified their operating areas as follows:

  • Inspiration TSH: Waveney
  • Unity TSH: West, Mid and East Suffolk (S), Babergh and Ipswich

As part of the reforms introduced by the DfE, schools will continue to choose which AB to use, and will be encouraged to use the TSH and TSH AB that makes the most sense for their circumstances. For most schools it is anticipated that this will be their local TSH AB, as defined by the DfE.

Statutory guidance para 5.3 states it is important for the headteacher to ‘agree, in advance of the ECT starting the induction programme, which body will act as the appropriate body’. Headteachers are encouraged to contact the TSH AB for an initial discussion.

Contact details below:

Inspiration TSH

Unity TSH