PART 4Supply and Disclosure of Information
Required provision of information to child protection agencies and police forces18.
(1)
Where a written request concerning a registered provider has been received from a person prescribed in paragraph (2), a childminder agency must, for the purpose of protecting children from harm or neglect, provide to that person such of the information mentioned in paragraphs 4, 13 to 15, 20 and 21 of Schedule 2 as has been requested and is held by the childminder agency in relation to that registered provider.
(2)
The prescribed persons are—
(a)
a child protection agency; and
(b)
a local policing body, or a police authority or a chief officer within the meaning of section 126 of the Police Act 1997 M1.
(3)
In this regulation, “child protection agency” means the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and any body or authority exercising statutory functions within the United Kingdom relating to the protection of children.