18.—(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.
Marginal Citations
M1The definition of “police authority” in section 126 of the Police Act 1997 (“the 1997 Act”) was amended by section 78(1) of, and paragraphs 20(1) and (3) of Schedule 6 to, the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c. 32), section 1 of, and paragraphs 221 and 224 of Schedule 16 to, the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), in relation to Scotland by section 128(1) of, and paragraph 14(8)(b) of Schedule 7 to, the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, and in relation to England and Wales by Article 25 of, and paragraphs 6(1) and 7(b) of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2013/602. The definition of “chief officer” in the 1997 Act was amended by section 78(1) of, and paragraphs 20(1) and (2)(b) of Schedule 6 to, the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c. 32), in relation to Scotland by section 128(1) of, and paragraph 14(8)(a) of Schedule 7 to, the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, and in relation to England and Wales by Article 25 of, and paragraphs 6(1) and 7(a) of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2013/602.