Integrated Reviews - the 2-year check
Progress Check at Age Two
When a child is aged between two and three, practitioners must review their progress and provide parents and/or carers with a short written summary of their child’s development in the prime areas.
The summary must:
- Highlight areas in which a child is progressing well.
- Highlight areas in which some additional support might be needed
- Focus particularly on any areas where there is a concern that a child may have a developmental delay, which may indicate a special educational need or disability.
- Describe the activities and strategies the provider intends to adapt to address any issues or concerns. This plan should involve parents and carers and other professionals (for example, the provider’s Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) or health professionals) as appropriate.
This forms part of the statutory assessment detailed in Section 2 of the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework documents for both group and school-based providers and for childminders.
Additional non-statutory government guidance on 2 year checks is also available. This contains an example format for the progress check (Appendix 1), an example letter to explain the progress check to parents (Appendix 2) and information on how parents can further support their child’s development (Appendix 3).
Integrated Reviews - the 2 year check
Where possible, the progress check and the Healthy Child Programme health and development review at age two (when health visitors gather information on a child’s health and development) should inform each other and support integrated working. This will allow health and education professionals to identify strengths as well as any developmental delay and any particular support from which they think the child/family might benefit. Providers must have the consent of parents and /or carers to share information directly with other relevant professionals.
We are committed to ensuring every child has the best start in life. We know that a child’s brain is 80% developed by the age of three. The first 1001 days are crucial for a child’s development.
We are now working closely with childcare providers and the Health and Wellbeing Service (0-19) to roll out an integrated check for two year olds. This will involve pulling together both ‘professional’ assessments to ensure parents have a holistic and comprehensive record of their child’s health and development before their third birthday.
This review should give parents the information they need to support their child to be ready for school. It should also make sure that any children who may need a little extra support and help get it early.
Integrated Reviews in childcare settings
This provides background information for childcare settings to consider when implementing integrated reviews.
Process when completing an integrated review
This flowchart provides the process for completing an integrated review in Staffordshire. Ensure all practitioners working with two-year-olds are aware of the integrated review process.
How to complete a progress check and working with families
The Graduate Response can advise professionals / practitioners on how to put actions in place, engage with parents and how to review and assess progress.
Letter for parents
Settings can send this letter to parents with children at approximately two years of age. The letter will advise about the integrated review process. Settings can print off can add their address and signature to the letter