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<p>The Department is leading work to develop an indicator of child development at
age 2-2½ to be included in the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) from 2017.
The population measure will give a national picture of child development at age 2
and will also help local areas to assess the impact of services for 0-2 year olds
and inform local commissioning.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2015, the Department has
asked all health visiting teams in England to use the evidence based Ages and Stages
Questionnaires (ASQ-3) as part of children’s health and development reviews at age
2-2½ to generate data for the indicator. The Department has worked with Health Education
England to develop e-learning materials to support health professionals using ASQ-3
as part of the two year review.</p><p> </p><p>From October 2015, health visiting providers
were asked to report ASQ-3 scores to the Children and Young People’s Health Services
dataset, which is being developed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
The dataset is expected to publish its first report in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Public
Health England will draw on ASQ-3 data from the children’s dataset to report the PHOF
outcome measure of child development at age 2-2½, reporting on a yearly basis the
percentage of children with a positive outcome across all five domains of development
in ASQ-3 at age 2-2½. The first reporting of the outcome measure is planned for inclusion
in the PHOF in spring 2017.</p>
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