Research shows that the period from birth to two is a time of rapid growth, learning and development. It is also a time when any need for extra support becomes clearer.
Today’s two-year-olds have lived their whole lives in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. This rightly concerns many practitioners, and is borne out with recent evidence from Ofsted highlighting developmental delays in speech and language and disproportionate impacts on SEND and disadvantaged pupils. It also raises concerns about children’s development in the Prime areas of learning in the EYFS.
As we emerge from the pandemic, the progress check at age two is more important than ever.
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