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It is a legal requirement to complete a progress check for any children in your care when they are aged between two and three years old. This pack is an essential childminding resource which guides and supports you through the whole process, ensuring that you are fulfilling all of your statutory duties while getting the most value out of the check or both you and your families.

Completing the check properly is not just a case of copying some development statements onto a piece of paper and giving it to the child's parents. The pack fully guides you through a five step process making sure you are doing things correctly. From help on how to write a accurate and useful report, to working with parents and other professionals and finally putting into place actions generated by the report.

The pack contains all the resources you need, including templates, report samples for children at different levels of development, and information and information sharing guidance and resources.

This pack is complemented by the new Development Records, in particular the Age 24 - 36 months Development Record.

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This pack includes everything you need to successfully write your progress checks at age two:

Progress Check Checklist

To get you started with the process the guidance to what you MUST do is broken down into a series of short statements. Each statement is further broken down into what you must do with further guidance, followed by things you can do if you want to demonstrate best practice.

5 Step Process to Completing Your Checks

This pack takes you through a simple 5 step process for writing and sharing your progress checks. Following this process ensures that you meet ALL the requirements set out in the September 2025 EYFS for Childminders.

There are some things that you MUST include in your report and some things, which, while not a legal requirement, are considered best practice. This pack guides you through all of the things you must include as well as the things that are good practice to add.

The EYFS requires that your progress check reports cover the three prime areas, highlighting area where the child is progressing well and where they may need extra support. The EYFS also requires that the report MUST focus particularly on any areas where there is a concern that a child may have a developmental delay, which may indicate a special educational need or disability. 

To help you fulfil these requirements this the pack includes the following tools:

Guidance Notes 

These are samples of things you might observe children doing over a a range of five developmental stages. 

1. 1. 1. 1. Not yet at the expected level, may need additional support

         2. Lower end of expected level may need additional support in a couple of areas

         3. Expected level

         4. Above expected level, may need extra challenge in some areas

         5. Well above the expected level will need extra challenge

Connected to these sample observations are:

Examples of what you might write on the report relating to these observations, in language which parents will find easy to understand.

Ideas for next steps. The EYFS also requires you to use the information in the report to support the child with their next steps or any issues and concerns that the report has highlighted. To help you do this this pack contains ideas for next steps relating to each prime area of learning and developmental stage.

NEW - Characteristics of Effective Learning Samples and Guidance.

While it is not compulsory to incorporate the Characteristics of Effective Learning in your progress checks, I strongly advise doing so whenever possible. Sharing information about the child's learning methods can provide valuable insights and enable you and other professionals to identify areas where the child may require assistance. 

The pack now contains a special Characteristics of Effective Learning section. It provides guidance on what to observe, along with sample statements for assessing and describing very young children's characteristics of effective learning. There is also a template for writing comments, offering more flexibility than just using a tick list.

Progress Check Report Templates. Specially designed, easy to complete templates to help you present a professional images to parents and health visitors. The templates include sections for you to write about the child's development in the three prime areas, and, if you wish, their characteristics of effective learning. There is a section at the bottom of each area to quickly highlight whether the child is at, above or below the expected area of development, fulfilling the EYFS requirement to do this. There is also space to include the child's next steps and how parents can support the child with these at home as well as space for both the parents' and the health visitors comments.

Letter to parents. A template for you give to parents with background information on the report and arranging a meeting.

NEW Information Sharing Permission Form. If you share the report directly with the health visitor or any other professionals, rather than providing the parents with a copy themselves, you must get permission from parents. This pack now included a sharing information permission form to make sure you fulfil this requirement.

Pack length: 65 Pages. Last Updated: February 2026

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N.B This pack is supplied as both downloadable PDF and WORD document. If you have any problems with your download please email me at jennifer@wellywren.co.uk and I will help. 

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By purchasing this pack, you agree that it is for use only in your individual use. You may make as many copies as you need for the children and families in your setting BUT MUST NOT share, copy or distribute any of the materials in any way, to anyone else. If you are part of a larger group, for example, a childminding group, or a chain of settings, please purchase one pack per setting. 

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