Nursery World - A Unique Child: Integrated Review

Understanding a child’s progress is particularly important in the Prime Areas. By Dr Kay Mathieson

The Integrated Review for two-year-olds is a positive opportunity to work more closely with colleagues from different agencies and traditions. This review of a two-year-old’s progress links the Progress Check at Age Two, as detailed in the Early Years Foundation Stage, with the two-and-a-half-year health review from the Healthy Child Programme. Both have existed as separate entities but are now a combined look at a child’s progress.

Parents, of course, have spent the most consistent time with their child, seeing them in a variety of contexts. From this basis, they will have built up an in-depth, detailed knowledge and understanding of their unique child. Our relationship with parents should be an opportunity to explore this knowledge and contribute our insights about the child’s response in the new situation of group care.

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