Measuring child development at the 2–2½-year health and development review in England: a rapid scoping review of available tools

OBJECTIVE: All children in England should receive a health review at 2-2½ years, with the Ages and Stages Questionnaire third edition (ASQ-3) used to collect public health surveillance data on child development. However, practitioners also value tools that assess individual children's development-consistent with ASQ-3's original purpose. Concerns about licensing costs and barriers to digitalisation have prompted interest in alternative tools to the ASQ-3 in England. DESIGN: To inform policy, we conducted a rapid scoping review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines to identify tools that can measure or assess early child development. DATA SOURCES: Searched PubMed, PsycINFO and Web of Science from January 2012 to November 2022, with targeted search update November 2024. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: We included English-language studies published after January 2012 that described or evaluated tools in English which could measure or assess early child development in children