Since September 2015, the Government has expected local authorities to start rolling out the Integrated Review (IR) for two-year-olds. This process brings together the check carried out by health visitors, with the EYFS Progress Check at Age Two. The integration of the two is ‘expected’, rather than mandatory, and the Government is leaving it up to local authorities to decide how to carry it out.
DIFFERENT MODELS
‘In most local authorities, small-scale IR pilots have gone well, but when they have started to roll it out they have come across stumbling blocks, usually around time, space, information-sharing and communicating with parents,’ says early years consultant and trainer Kay Mathieson.
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