Arrangements for Placement of Children (General) Regulations 1991

Access by guardians ad litem to records and register

11.  Each voluntary organisation, where they are not acting as anauthorised person(1), and every person carrying on a registered children'shome shall provide a guardian ad litem of a child—

(a) such access as may be required to—

(i) case records and registers maintained in accordance with theseRegulations; and

(ii) the information from such records or registers held in whatever form(such as by means of computer);

(b) such copies of the records or entries in the registers as he mayrequire.

(1)

For access by guardians ad litem to local authority andauthorised person’s records see section 42 of the 1989 Act as amended byparagraph 18 of Schedule 16 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990(c.41).“Authorised person” is defined in section 31, of the 1989 Act.