Two-Year Progress Checks Made Simple

The Two-Year Progress Check is a statutory requirement. Every child must have a progress check between 24 and 36 months, and settings must share this with parents and health visitors. It's important work—but the admin burden can be significant.

What the check involves

The Two-Year Progress Check requires practitioners to:

• Review the child's development in the three prime areas (Communication and Language, Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development)
• Identify the child's strengths and areas where progress is less than expected
• Describe activities and strategies to support the child
• Share the summary with parents and, with consent, health visitors

How Early Tree helps

Development data at your fingertips

When you've been recording observations and tracking development throughout the year, generating a progress check becomes much easier. Early Tree pulls together relevant observations, milestones, and development snapshots automatically.

Structured templates

We provide templates that guide practitioners through each required section. The system prompts you to consider each prime area, suggest areas for support, and document parental input.

Collaboration with parents

Parents can view and contribute to the progress check through the parent portal. They can add their own observations from home, review the draft, and provide their signature—all digitally.

Health visitor sharing

With parental consent, progress checks can be shared directly with health visitors in the formats they expect, reducing the paper trail and phone calls.

Scheduling and reminders

The system tracks which children are approaching their two-year check window and creates tasks for practitioners. No child falls through the cracks because the date wasn't on someone's calendar.

Reducing last-minute rushes

Many settings find themselves completing two-year checks in a rush when they realise the deadline is approaching. With Early Tree tracking development throughout the year and prompting checks at the right time, the process becomes steady and manageable.

Compliance confidence

The completed checks are stored securely with full audit trails. If Ofsted asks about your two-year check processes, you have clear evidence of when checks were completed, what they contained, and how they were shared.

Request beta access and see how Two-Year Progress Checks can be straightforward.