The Child Development area in Famly is where you can record, review, and understand each child's learning across your setting. It brings together observations, assessments, two-year checks, and reporting tools so you can build a clear picture of how children are progressing over time.

Here, practitioners can document what they see, plan next steps, and use curriculum guidance to support reflective and meaningful assessment. Managers can review this information at both child and cohort level to help with planning, provision, and identifying areas where extra support may be needed.

Everything is designed to reduce paperwork and keep the focus on professional judgement, quality interactions, and knowing the children well.

The updates to the EYFS and the shift towards reducing paperwork give settings an opportunity to review how progress is monitored. In Famly, child development reports are now based on your assessments rather than observations linked to curriculum statements. This supports a more meaningful and holistic understanding of each child.

Assessments should be based on:

Assessments should not rely on how much of the guidance a child has completed or ticked off. These documents are not designed to be used in this way.

To find your reports for Child development:

The layout of your progress report depends on the type of assessment you have chosen. The report gives an overview of how practitioners have assessed children across the setting.

You can filter progress reports by:

The tally report gives you an overview of the number of observations made for children, broken down by the areas of learning in your chosen framework.

You can filter the tally report by: