Afterword

In 2013/14, I was in discussion with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) about a funding proposal for researching and delivering an intervention to mitigate high levels of early career teacher (ECT) attrition. Having worked with schools to support initial teacher education (ITE) and continuing professional development (CPD) over many years, I had observed increasing challenges with ECT retention, particularly in schools with high levels of persistently disadvantaged children, such as those in socio-economically deprived coastal and rural areas of England (Ovenden-Hope and Passy 2015; 2019). The EEF awarded a grant (contracted to The Cornwall College Group, my employer at the time of the award) for RETAIN (EEF 2018) in 2015