Required provision of information to various prescribed persons9
1
Where a written request concerning a F3registered 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 F3registered provider.
F41A
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;
F9aa
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 F11the Care Standards Act 2000;
F10ba
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 National Assembly for Wales;
F2d
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 F12a member State of the European Economic Area having functions comprising the regulation of childcare.
F7h
a childminder agency;
F52A
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, 10F1, 12 and 13 of Part 2 of Schedule 1; and
c
Schedule 2.
F63A
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.