Information for employers, trainee and qualified Teachers
Helpful links and contacts to services for trainee teachers, teachers with QTS qualifications, ECT induction appeals and employers checking a teachers record.
Information and contacts for employers
Check a teacher’s record
Use this service to check a teacher’s record before they start working for your school, college, teacher supply agency, or other organisation.
Check a teacher’s record - GOV.UK
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TRA Prohibition checks
If you are unable to use Check a teacher’s record - GOV.UK to check whether a teacher is subject to a prohibition or another sanction please contact us.
Email: TRA.Prohibition@education.gov.uk
Information and contacts for trainee and qualified teachers
Access your teaching qualifications
This service lets you download your teaching certificates and change the name on them. You can also check the details of your initial teacher training and induction.
Access your teaching qualifications
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS): qualify to teach in England
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
Qualified teacher status (QTS): qualify to teach in England
Find a lost Teacher Reference Number (TRN)
Use this service to:
- find your teacher reference number (TRN) if you do not know it or have forgotten it
- check if you have a TRN
Find a lost teacher reference number (TRN)
Early Career Teacher (ECT) induction appeals
How to appeal a newly qualified teacher induction decision. Also includes how to attend an induction appeal hearing as an observer.
Early Career Teacher (ECT) induction appeals - GOV.UK
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Qualified Teacher Status
Email: teaching.status@education.gov.uk
Support for trainee teachers and teachers accessing their teaching qualifications.
Early Career Teacher (ECT) induction
Email: teacher.induction@education.gov.uk
Information for ECTs and appropriate bodies regarding the statutory ECT induction period and data returns to TRA. Our helpdesk no longer provides support by phone but you can contact us by email instead.