53E+WAfter section 83 insert—
“83ASupply of information to the Secretary of State, HMRC and local authorities by childminder agencies
(1)An early years childminder agency or a later years childminder agency must provide prescribed information to the Secretary of State, Her Majesty‘s Revenue and Customs, and each relevant local authority, if it—
(a)grants a person's application for registration for the purposes of Chapter 2, 3 or 4;
(b)takes any other steps under this Part of a prescribed description.
(2)The information which may be prescribed for the purposes of this section is—
(a)in the case of information to be provided to the Secretary of State, information which the Secretary of State may require for the purposes of the Secretary of State's functions in relation to universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012;
(b)in the case of information to be provided to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, information which Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs may require for the purposes of their functions in relation to tax credits;
(c)in the case of information to be provided to a relevant local authority, information which would assist the local authority in the discharge of their functions under section 12.
(3)In this section, “relevant local authority” means an English local authority for an area in which a person who is (or, as the case may be, was) registered with the early years childminder agency or later years childminder agency for the purposes of Chapter 2 or 3 provides (or has provided) early years provision or later years provision in respect of which he or she is (or was) registered.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 4 para. 53 in force at 1.4.2014 for specified purposes by S.I. 2014/889, art. 3(m)