Now your child is 2

Age two is an important time for children and their parents. It is a time when problems with language

development and behaviour can start to be

identified.

It is an age where interventions can be

more effective than they would be for an older child, making a real difference to your

child’s future.

Presently, health and early years reviews of

young children are carried out separately. Health

Visitors do the Department of Health’s

Healthy Child Programme review at 2 to 2 ½.

And Early Years Practitioners do the

Department for Education’s EYFS

progress check at age 2.

It was proposed that from September 2015,

however, health and early years practitioners would be working side by side to

improve outcomes for young children.

And that by integrating the 2 assessments we

would get a more complete picture of the child, drawing on the

expertise of both Health Visitors and Early Years

Practitioners.

It would give us a more complete picture of the child’s development and

would identify any additional support the

child might need so that they get the best start

in life.

After 4 years of deliberation, the 2 year old integrated review simply cannot work as they are too different

in purpose and approach.

Carry on doing what you were doing.