Childcare Act 2006

Reports and information

80 Combined reports

(1) This section applies if, following inspections under this Part of early years or later years provision, the Chief Inspector—

(a) is required to make more than one report under section 50(1) or determines to make more than one report under section 61(1), or

(b) is required to make one or more reports under section 50(1) and determines to make one or more reports under section 61(1).

(2) If the Chief Inspector considers it appropriate, he may—

(a) combine any two or more of those reports in a single document (“a combined report”), and

(b) to such extent as he considers appropriate, combine the substantive reports.

(3) If the Chief Inspector combines reports under this section, the powers and duties which apply in relation to each report by virtue of section 50(2) or 61(2) are to be read as applying instead to the combined report.

81 Information to be included in annual reports

(1) The annual reports of the Chief Inspector required by section 3(a) of the Education Act 2005 (c. 18) to be made to the Secretary of State must include an account of the exercise of the Chief Inspector’s functions under this Part in relation to early years provision and later years provision.

(2) The power conferred on the Chief Inspector by section 3(b) of that Act includes a power to make reports with respect to matters which fall within the scope of his functions by virtue of the provisions of this Part relating to early years provision and later years provision.

82 Supply of information to Chief Inspector

The Chief Inspector may at any time require any person registered under this Part to provide him with any information connected with the person’s activities as an early years provider or later years provider which the Chief Inspector considers it necessary to have for the purposes of his functions under this Part.

83 Supply of information to HMRC and local authorities

(1) The Chief Inspector must provide prescribed information to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, and the relevant local authority, if he takes any of the following steps under this Part—

(a) grants a person’s application for registration;

(b) gives notice of his intention to cancel a person’s registration;

(c) cancels a person’s registration;

(d) suspends a person’s registration;

(e) removes a person from the register at that person’s request.

(2) The Chief Inspector must also provide prescribed information to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, and the relevant local authority, if an order is made under section 72(2).

(3) The information which may be prescribed for the purposes of this section is—

(a) in the case of information to be provided to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, information which Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs may require for the purposes of their functions in relation to tax credits;

(b) in the case of information to be provided to the relevant local authority, information which would assist the local authority in the discharge of their functions under section 12.

(4) In this section, “the relevant local authority” means the English local authority for the area in which the person provides (or, as the case may be, has provided) the early years provision or later years provision in respect of which he is (or was) registered.

84 Disclosure of information for certain purposes

(1) The Chief Inspector may arrange for prescribed information held by him in relation to persons registered under this Part to be made available for the purpose of—41

(a) assisting parents or prospective parents in choosing an early years or later years provider, or

(b) protecting children from harm or neglect.

(2) The information may be made available in such manner and to such persons as the Chief Inspector considers appropriate.

(3) Regulations may require the Chief Inspector to provide prescribed information held by him in relation to persons registered under this Part to prescribed persons for either of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1).