Our Health Visiting Teams work closely with Early Years settings across Wirral to provide you with a seamless and comprehensive insight into your child’s health and development needs.
What is the Integrated Two-Year Check?
It is a health and development review of your child that is carried out by your health visiting team and your child’s early years setting (childminder, nursery, preschool, or playgroup). It will take place when your child is between 24 and 30 months old and a member of the health visiting team will:
- Send you an invite to book an appointment either by text or post. If you would like to check your contact details, please contact 0151 514 0219.
- If we don’t hear from you, we will send an appointment letter for when this appointment will take place, if you can’t make this appointment, please get in touch with the team to rearrange the appointment for a date/ time that suits you.
- Provide an overview of the check to put in your Red Book.
- Ask parents/carers to share this with your child’s early years setting.
- If we identify any concerns, with your permission, we will share this information with your child’s early years setting.
In addition to this, your Early Years setting will review your child’s progress when your child is between 2 to 3 years of age:
- They will provide an overview of the progress that your child is making in their development areas, which are: Personal, Social, and Emotional Development; Physical Development; and Communication and Language.
- Provide this report for you to put in your Red Book.
- If they identify any concerns, with your permission, they will share this information with your Health Visitor.
- The Early Years staff will let you know when this will take place.
For local authority early years information visit: Early years and childcare | wirral.gov.uk
Why do we do two checks?
The two checks ensure that all your child’s developmental needs are reviewed, with both health and early years education professionals contributing to the process.
They will work together to support your child to make progress if any issues are identified. If you have any questions about the integrated check, please contact your health visiting team or your child’s key person in your early years setting.
Information for Professional
If you have any developmental concerns regarding a child in your care, you can refer directly to health with parental consent.
If you would like to provide health with a copy of your 2-year progress check before the health review these can be emailed to [email protected]
