children’s home;

premises in which a child who is being looked after by a local authority is living;

premises in which a child who is being accommodated by or on behalf of a local education authority or voluntary organisation is living;

premises in which a child who is being accommodated by or on behalf of a F1Health Authority, Special Health AuthorityF2, Primary Care TrustF3or National Health Service trustis living;

premises in which a child is living with a person with whom he has been placed by an adoption agency;

premises in which a child who is a protected child is, or will be, living;

premises in which a privately fostered child, or child who is treated as a foster child by virtue of paragraph 9 of Schedule 8, is living or in which it is proposed that he will live;

residential care home, nursing home or mental nursing home required to be registered under the M1Registered Homes Act 1984 and used to accommodate children;

premises which are provided by a local authority and in which any service is provided by that authority under Part III;

independent school providing accommodation for any child;

any premises to which subsection (1) or, in relation to Scotland, subsection (1)(h) or (i) applies;

any child who is living in any such premises;

the discharge by the Secretary of State of any of his functions under this Act; or

the discharge by any local authority of any of their functions under this Act,

local authority;

voluntary organisation;

person carrying on a children’s home;

proprietor of an independent school;

person fostering any privately fostered child or providing accommodation for a child on behalf of a local authority, local education authority, F4Health Authority, Special Health AuthorityF2Primary Care Trust,F5National Health Service trustor voluntary organisation;

local education authority providing accommodation for any child;

person employed in a teaching or administrative capacity at any educational establishment (whether or not maintained by a local education authority) at which a child is accommodated on behalf of a local authority or local education authority;

person who is the occupier of any premises in which any person acts as a child minder (within the meaning of Part X) or provides day care for young children (within the meaning of that Part);

person carrying on any home of a kind mentioned in subsection (1)(j).

inspect the children there; and

make such examination into the state and management of the home or premises and the treatment of the children there as he thinks fit.

shall be entitled at any reasonable time to have access to, and inspect and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been in use in connection with the records in question; and

the functions of F6a local authority which are social services functions within the meaning of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970, in so far as those functions relate to children;

the functions of an adoption agency;

the functions of a voluntary organisation, in so far as those functions relate to children;

a F7. . . children’s home or voluntary home;

a residential care home, nursing home or mental nursing home, so far as it provides accommodation for children;

a home provided F8in accordance with arrangements madeby the Secretary of State under section 82(5);

the detention of a child under F9section 92 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000.

any fees or expenses incurred by any person undergoing approved child care training;

any fees charged, or expenses incurred, by any person providing approved child care training or preparing material for use in connection with such training; or

the cost of maintaining any person undergoing such training.

a grant has been made under subsection (2) with respect to any secure accommodation; but

the grant is not used for the purpose for which it was made or the accommodation is not used as, or ceases to be used as, secure accommodation,

expenses incurred in respect of the borrowing of money to defray any such expenditure.

are or will be provided in those homes; and

in the opinion of the Secretary of State, are unlikely to be readily available in community homes.

his employment for the purposes of any of the functions mentioned in section 83(9) or in connection with the adoption of children or with the accommodation of children in a residential care home, nursing home or mental nursing home; or

his employment by a voluntary organisation for similar purposes;

his functions, or the functions of local authorities, under the enactments mentioned in subsection (9);

the adoption of children; or

the accommodation of children in a residential care home, nursing home or mental nursing home.

their functions under the enactments mentioned in subsection (9);

the adoption of children; or

the accommodation of children in a residential care home, nursing home or mental nursing home.

the children in relation to whom the authority have exercised those functions.

to such person as may be specified in the direction; and

at such times and in such form as he may direct,

the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work;

such representatives of local authorities as appear to him to be appropriate; or

such other persons or organisations as appear to him to be appropriate,

this Act;

the Children and Young Persons Acts 1933 to 1969;

section 116 of the M3Mental Health Act 1983 (so far as it relates to children looked after by local authorities);

section 10 of the M4Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (so far as it relates to children for whom local authorities have responsibility).