Schools will receive up to £1,500 for each of their early career teachers to cover time spent training away from the classroom, the government has said.

Guidance published today by the Department for Education shows that schools outside of London will be entitled to £1,200 for new teachers in their second year, under the reformed Early Career Framework (ECF).

This payment will rise to £1,300 for schools in the “fringe area”, £1,400 in outer London, and £1,500 in inner London, the DfE said.

Funding to train early career teachers

Schools will also receive separate funding for mentors, based on 20 hours of mentoring across the academic year.

The DfE said it had calculated the funding amounts by taking the average salary of early career teachers and mentors, split by region.

The total funding entitlement per teacher and mentor, distributed as a single payment in the summer of the second year of induction, will be £2,100 for schools outside of London, £2,200 for those in the fringe area, £2,500 for outer London, and £2,600 for inner London.

The ECF, part of the department’s teacher recruitment and retention strategy, sets out the training that early career teachers will be entitled to by the end of an extended two-year induction period.

It will become statutory from September 2021.