At present, practice varies widely between local education authorities across Scotland. Many pre-school centres rely on word-of-mouth reports and informal discussion to transfer information to primary schools and even where written information is passed on, there is often no basis for primary schools to be sure that staff are using consistent standards in assessing, recording and reporting on children's achievements.
'Baseline' assessment - that is, assessment when a child starts primary school -is now a legal requirement in England, and there has also been considerable interest in it in Scotland, where the Government has funded a pilot study into improving the quality and consistency of information transferred from pre-school to primary.
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