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Setting your Learning Frameworks

Childminding App includes popular EYFS frameworks so your observations and reports use the wording you prefer.

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Choose your frameworks

  1. Go to SettingsLearning Frameworks.

  2. Toggle on any frameworks you want to use (you can have more than one active), except where noted:

  • Development Matters (2012)

  • Development Matters (2021)

  • Birth to 5 Matters

  • Curriculum for Excellence (Scotland) - used on its own. Turning this on will turn the others off (and vice-versa).

Your selection controls what you see in EYFS observations and in reports.

Monitoring titles (your wording)

Every childminder records progress a little differently. You can rename the monitoring options to match how you like to work.

  1. In SettingsLearning Frameworks, scroll to Monitoring titles.

  2. Use the Edit button to change the name and colour of each title.

  3. Toggle on/off titles to choose how many you want to use.

  • By default there are 4 titles. You can keep fewer or rename them to your wording.

  • Your titles appear when you add a Learning & Development observation and in the Monitoring report.

Tip: Keep titles short and clear (e.g., “Needs support”, “On track”, “Greater depth”).

Monitoring titles are then found as part of a L&D Observation:

And again make up the Monitoring Report:

Good to know

  • You can switch frameworks on/off any time.

  • Monitoring titles can be updated later if your approach changes.

  • These settings affect what you see when creating new observations and reports.

Need help?

Email hello@childmindingapp.com and we’ll give you a hand.

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