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NQT Special: Your rights and entitlements

Welcome to SecEd’s NQT special edition. The next eight pages offer a range of advice for NQTs as they approach the end of their first term. To begin, Chris Keates looks at the entitlements and support that all NQTs should be receiving

The end of the first term of the school year is rapidly approaching and with it the first key milestone of the induction year for NQTs.

It is to be hoped that new teachers will have experienced more highs than lows so far and will have gained the confidence and satisfaction that comes from seeing pupils learning and progressing as a result of their teaching.

The experience NQTs have in this first and crucial induction year is extremely important and it is for this reason that successive governments have recognised the need to put statutory provisions in place which are specifically designed to ensure that the induction year provides a structured and supported introduction into the profession. These provisions include:

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