Backfill payments for time off timetable for early career framework (ECF) mentor training (national roll-out)

The guidance is for:

• local authorities
• school leaders
• school teachers
• governing bodies and their representatives

Overview

Eligible schools will receive backfill payments to cover 36 hours of mentor time off timetable for training per mentor, over 2 years. This funding will be made in arrears over 2 payments. The first payment, covering 18 hours of mentor time off timetable for training, will be made in the summer of year 1 following mentors starting the training. The second payment for the remaining 18 hours of mentor time off timetable will be made in the summer of year 2 where there has been sustained engagement with the training.

Conditions of grant

This guidance sets out the terms and conditions applied to the funding for eligible institutions that have provided time off timetable for mentors to complete the provider-led ECF-based mentor training with one of the DfE-funded training providers as part of the national roll-out of the early career framework reforms.

Allocations

You can view both the revisedJuly academic year 2021 to 2022 and academicJuly year 2022 to 2023 grant funding on the backfill payments for time off timetable for ECF mentor training grant allocations spreadsheets above. These updated spreadsheets include all corrective and sweep up allocations up to December 2023.spreadsheets.

Payments

AllocationPayments payments for the2023 academicallocations yearwill 2022be to 2023 were made to local authorities at the end of July 2023 for maintained schools, and directly to academies at the start of August 2023. This includedwill include grant funding for year 1 mentor training (for those who started in the academic year of 2022 to 2023) and year 2 mentor training (for those who started in the academic year of 2021 to 2022). The grant funding waswill be based on whether anthe individual wasis on year 1 or year 2 of the ECF mentor training.

WeA have made all corrective action and sweep up paymentspayment atwill thebe endmade ofearly January 2024, whichto ensuresensure all eligible schools and organisations not captured in the summer 2023 payment window haveare been paid in year.

Allocation payments for 2024 will be made to local authorities for maintained schools and directly to academies by the end of the academic year 2023 to 2024.

Further details

For any further enquiries you can contact: continuing-professional-development@digital.education.gov.uk