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Appropriate Body services and how to register your ECT
How to register your school on ECT Manager
Click here to read guidance on the updated DfE portal – ‘Register Early Career Teachers’ (RECT)
Click here to read the DfE guidance – ‘Induction for early career teachers (England)’ updated 9 June 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
I’ve forgotten my login details for the ECT Manager portal. What do I need to do?
You will need to ensure your Headteacher or Induction Tutor have completed the “Register your school” section and added you as a user. You can reset your details on the login page. Please remember to check your junk folder as the email is automated. Mentors do not require a log in for ECT Manager.
If you are still experiencing difficulties, please contact the TSH team for further assistance.
What should I include in the Professional Progress Reviews and Formal Assessments?
Please click here to visit our Appropriate Body page for more information. Remember it is the Induction Tutor who will write and submit these reports, not the Mentor.
We have an ECT joining us who will be starting year 2. How do we transfer their information?
Induction Tutors need to register their ECTs and ECMs (mentors) on the DfE Online Service:
https://manage-training-for-early-career-teachers.education.gov.uk/
You will need to formally instruct The Golden Thread Teaching School Hub to act as the Appropriate Body for the ECT induction. This can be done on ECT Manager.
Our ECT is leaving to work at another school. How do we transfer their information and how is the funding arranged?
You will need to update the DfE portal and inform the delivery partner. The funding arrangements will be picked up via the workforce census.
For the Appropriate Body element, please email tsh@painsley.staffs.sch.uk to inform the team. Please complete their report on ECT Manager as normal. If a professional progress review is due, the system will automatically update this to an interim assessment when you enter the details that the ECT will not be staying at your school for their next assessment period. It is the responsibility of the new school to instruct a new Appropriate Body or request the existing one continues.