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Parents asked for views on progress checks for two-year-olds
28 Nov 2011
Parents are being asked their views of the development check due to be introduced for children between two-and-a-half and three years of age.
The survey, which will question up to 2,500 parents of two-year-olds, is being carried out by parenting club Bounty with the Pre-School Learning Alliance.
The Bounty online opinion survey asks what parents think about the plans to introduce the development check for all children who use registered childcare settings.
It also asks parents to choose what they think the main focus of the report should be, based on different areas of learning and development in the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Parents will be asked to consider whether they think the progress report will help to identify special educational needs or behavioural problems, as well as whether they believe there could be a possibility of misdiagnosis, due to developmental differences in young children.
The Pre-School Learning Alliance will publish the results early next year.
Read the full article at Nursery World.
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