Nursery World - Learning & Development: Record-Keeping

Under new guidance, how will practitioners devise meaningful systems of assessment and record-keeping that track children's progress from birth to five years? Lena Engel advises.

Government policy since the revision of the EYFS has been committed to simplifying the curriculum, reducing paperwork and empowering providers to make their own decisions. In More Affordable Childcare, published last month, it was made clear that 'learning journeys' were not required as a method of demonstrating children's progress in the EYFS.

At the same time, the Government has focused its attention on reducing the power of local authorities to impose specific record-keeping systems and to make judgements on quality to those of Ofsted. This is made clear in More Great Childcare, which states, 'We believe that Ofsted should become the sole arbiter of quality in the early years.'

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