Grant funding for early career teacher entitlement (ECTE) year 2 time off timetable and mentor support
Guidance for schools and local authorities on funding to support the early career teacher entitlement (ECTE)
Applies to England
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From 1 September 2025, the early career teacher entitlement (ECTE) replaces the early career framework (ECF) based training, induction and mentoring.
This information is for:
- local authorities
- school leaders
- school teachers
- governing bodies and their representatives
Grant funding for year 2 time off timetable and mentor support
ECF, and from 1 September 2025 ECTE, based induction year 2 time off timetable grant funding is paid for most ECTs after the end of the second academic year an ECT completes induction and covers 1 total payment amount.
This funding covers the cost of giving each聽ECT聽in the second year of induction:
- 5% time off timetable for induction activities including바카라 사이트�ECF聽based training and mentor sessions
- a dedicated mentor, based on 20 hours of mentor support in the second year of induction
Grant funding is linked to the聽ECT聽induction and paid to the school that has registered the聽ECT聽as undergoing their聽training at that school in their second year of induction. The funding element for the mentor support is paid as part for the total payable funding amount.
Payment schedule and conditions of grant
This funding will be paid as a grant, and in arrears, after the end of the second academic year to eligible settings as set out in the conditions of grant.
The conditions of grant for ECTs who begin induction on or after the September 2025 cohort, the applicable conditions of grant will be published before the 2025 to 2026 academic year starts.
For ECTs who began induction with the September 2021 cohort and prior to the September 2025 cohort, the academic years 2022 to 2023 and 2024 to 2025 conditions of grant are applicable.
The table below provides an illustration of the standard induction journey and associated funding. For non-standard induction (for example part-time ECTs), please see the relevant section of the conditions of grant.
| ECT beginning induction in the academic year | Year 1 funding via the 바카라 사이트�dedicated schools grant 聽or equivalent in the academic year | Year 2 funding via grant funding made in arrears after the end of the academic year |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 to 2022 | 2021 to 2022 | 2022 to 2023 |
| 2022 to 2023 | 2022 to 2023 | 2023 to 2024 |
| 2023 to 2024 | 2023 to 2024 | 2024 to 2025 |
| 2024 to 2025 | 2024 to 2025 | 2025 to 2026 |
| 2025 to 2026 | 2025 to 2026 | 2026 to 2027 |
Payments will be made to local authorities for maintained schools and directly to academies and other eligible institutions in accordance with the schedule below. Local authorities will receive a payment remittance which will include a school allocation list for the maintained schools relevant to them. Grant funding allocations will be published each year prior to payments being made. Any corrective payments will be made in accordance with the payment schedule as well.
The table below provides information on payment schedule.
| Academic year | Local authority maintained schools | Academies and other eligible institutions |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 to 2023 | End of July 2023 | Start of August 2023 |
| 2023 to 2024 | End of November 2024 | Start of December 2024 |
| 2024 to 2025 | End of November 2025 | Start of December 2025 |
| 2025 to 2026 | End of November 2026 | Start of December 2026 |
Grant funding allocations
At the top of this page, you can view
- the conditions of grant for academic years 2022 to 2023 and 2024 to 2025
- the grant allocations spreadsheet for academic year 2023 to 2024
- the grant allocations spreadsheet for academic year 2022 to 2023
For any further enquiries you can contact:聽continuing-professional-development@digital.education.gov.uk
Updates to this page
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We have renamed and updated the page (previously Funding for time off timetable for early career teachers and mentors who participated in the national roll-out of the early career framework reforms) and added details of grant funding for early career teacher entitlement (ECTE) year 2 time off timetable and mentor support from September 2025.
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We have added the early career teacher and mentor time off timetable grant allocations spreadsheet for 2023 to 2024 and revised the 2022 to 2023 allocations spreadsheet.
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We have updated the dates for when payments will be made to local authorities and academies.
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We have updated the 'Early career framework (ECF) based induction year 2 time off timetable conditions of grant' to advise allocation payments for 2024 will be made to local authorities for maintained schools and directly to academies from the end of the academic year 2023 to 2024.
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We have published an updated academic year 2022 to 2023 funding for time off timetable for early career teachers (ECT) and mentor grant allocations spreadsheet, which details allocations updated in December 2023. We have updated wording in the 'Allocations' and 'Payments' sections on this landing page to reflect this allocation update.
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We have updated the 'Payments' section on the landing page to advise the sweep up payment will now be made early 2024.
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Early career framework (ECF)-based induction year 2 time off timetable conditions of grant - we have updated the 'Payments' section to advise users of the payment process for year 2 early career teachers. We have published the early career framework (ECF)-based induction year 2 time off timetable grant allocations July 2023 spreadsheet.
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First published.