Ask nursery nurses the most unpopular part of their job and more often than not they say it is completing the child development records. Ask a nursery manager the same question and they are likely to say it is motivating staff to keep child development records up to date.
Keeping records is a complex task, as it requires staff to:
* know and apply the theories of child development to each child
* understand theories of observation
* collect useful and accurate observational evidence
* analyse their observations to produce a helpful picture of how a child is progressing
* recognise significant achievements within the range of child development
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