19.—(1) Where a written request concerning a registered provider has been received from a person prescribed in paragraph (2), a childminder agency must, for the purpose of protecting children from harm or neglect, provide to that person such of the information prescribed in paragraph (3) as has been requested and is held by the childminder agency in relation to that registered provider.
(2) The prescribed persons are—
(a)a fostering agency within the meaning of section 4(4) of the Care Standards Act 2000 M1;
[F1(aa)a provider of a fostering service (within the meaning of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016);]
(b)a voluntary adoption agency within the meaning of section 4(7) of [F2the Care Standards Act 2000];
[F3(ba)a provider of an adoption service (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a) of Schedule 1 to the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016;]
(c)the Welsh Ministers;
(d)Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland;
(e)a Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland;
(f)a body acting on behalf of the Crown in the Channel Islands or in the Isle of Man;
(g)the national authority of [F4a] member State of the European Economic Area having functions comprising the regulation of childcare; and
(h)a childminder agency.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the prescribed information is the information specified in paragraphs 1 to 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 19 and 20 of Schedule 2.
(4) Any information referred to in paragraph (3) is not to be treated as prescribed information which must be provided to a prescribed person where the information has previously been provided by the childminder agency to that prescribed person.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 19(2)(aa) inserted (29.4.2019) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 24(2)(a)
F2Words in reg. 19(2)(b) substituted (29.4.2019) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 24(2)(b)
F3Reg. 19(2)(ba) inserted (29.4.2019) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 24(2)(c)
F4Word in reg. 19(2)(g) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Childcare (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1116), regs. 1, 4 (as amended by S.I. 2019/727, regs. 1, 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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