9.—(1) Where a written request concerning a [F1registered provider] has been received from a person prescribed in paragraph (2), the Chief Inspector must, pursuant to section 84(3) of the Act, 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 her in relation to that [F1registered provider].
[F2(1A) Where a written request concerning a registered agency has been received from a person prescribed in paragraph (2A), the Chief Inspector must, pursuant to section 84(3) of the Act, for the purpose of protecting children from harm or neglect, provide to that person such of the information prescribed in paragraph (3A) as has been requested and is held by the Chief Inspector in relation to that registered agency.]
(2) The prescribed persons referred to in paragraph (1) are—
(a)a fostering agency within the meaning of section 4(4) of the Care Standards Act 2000 M1;
(b)a voluntary adoption agency within the meaning of section 4(7) of that Act;
(c)the National Assembly for Wales;
[F3(d)Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland;]
(e)a Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland M2;
(f)a body acting on behalf of the Crown in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man; and
(g)the national authority of any other member State of the European Economic Area having functions comprising the regulation of childcare.
[F4(h)a childminder agency;]
[F5(2A) The prescribed persons referred to in paragraph (1A) are the persons specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (g) of paragraph (2).]
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the prescribed information referred to in paragraph (1) is the information specified in—
(a)Part 1 of Schedule 1;
(b)paragraphs 6, 7, 9, 10[F6, 12 and 13] of Part 2 of Schedule 1; and
(c)Schedule 2.
[F7(3A) Subject to paragraph (4), the prescribed information referred to in paragraph (1A) is the information specified in paragraphs 1 to 9, 10, 14 and 15 of Schedule 4.]
(4) Any information referred to in paragraph (3) [F8or (3A)] 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 Chief Inspector to that prescribed person.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 9 substituted (1.9.2014) by The Childcare (Childminder Agencies) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1921), regs. 1, 31(a)
F2Reg. 9(1A) inserted (1.9.2014) by The Childcare (Childminder Agencies) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1921), regs. 1, 31(b)
F3Reg. 9(2)(d) substituted (28.10.2011) by The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications of Enactments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2581), art. 1(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 57
F4Reg. 9(2)(h) inserted (1.9.2014) by The Childcare (Childminder Agencies) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1921), regs. 1, 31(c)
F5Reg. 9(2A) inserted (1.9.2014) by The Childcare (Childminder Agencies) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1921), regs. 1, 31(d)
F6Words in reg. 9(3)(b) substituted (1.9.2008) by The Childcare (Supply and Disclosure of Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/961), regs. 1, 7
F7Reg. 9(3A) added (1.9.2014) by The Childcare (Childminder Agencies) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1921), regs. 1, 31(e)
F8Words in reg. 9(4) inserted (1.9.2014) by The Childcare (Childminder Agencies) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1921), regs. 1, 31(f)
Marginal Citations
M2The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2) as amended imposes certain duties on Health and Social Services Boards in Northern Ireland. Part 11 makes provision for child minding and day care for young children in Northern Ireland.