Child health surveillanceE+W
6.—(1) A contractor whose contract includes the provision of child health surveillance services must, in respect of any child under the age of five years for whom it has responsibility under the contract—
(a)provide all the services described in sub-paragraph (2), other than an examination described in that sub-paragraph which the parent refuses to allow the child to undergo, until the date upon which the child attains the age of five years; and
(b)maintain the records specified in sub-paragraph (3).
(2) The services described in this sub-paragraph are—
(a)monitoring the health, well-being and physical, mental and social development (“development”) of the child while under the age of five years with a view to detecting any deviations from normal development—
(i)by the consideration of information concerning the child received by or on behalf of the contractor, and
(ii)on any occasion when the child is examined or observed by or on behalf of the contractor (whether by virtue of paragraph (b) or otherwise); and
(b)examination of the child at the frequency that has been agreed with the Board in accordance with the nationally agreed evidence based programme set out in the fourth edition of “Health for all Children”M1.
(3) The records specified in this sub-paragraph are an accurate record of—
(a)the development of the child while under the age of five years, compiled as soon as is reasonably practicable following the first examination of that child and, where appropriate, amended following each subsequent examination; and
(b)the responses (if any) to offers made to the child's parent for the child to undergo an examination referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b).
Marginal Citations
M1Health for All Children, Revised 4th Edition by David M B Hall and David Elliman was published by Oxford University Press on 7th September 2006.