Schools in England have a problem with teacher retention. For every 10 who begin their training, three never take a job in a state-funded school and a further one or two leave during their early career.
This creates a profession that is less experienced than in other developed countries and it a perpetual teacher recruitment crisis where we must keep stuffing the pipeline with new trainees. It damages the overall quality of teaching that students experience through unnecessarily high exposure to inexperienced staff. Early career retention is a problem worth fixing.
The Early Career Framework (ECF) introduced just over a year ago was the latest attempt to improve the early-career experience. Over the past year, the teacher survey app, Teacher Tapp, and the Gatsby Foundation have been finding out how it is working.
