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The Children (Leaving Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
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- 2005 No. 221
- Regulation 9
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Retention and confidentiality of records
9.—(1) Records relating to assessments, pathway plans and their review shall be retained by the responsible authority until the seventy-fifth anniversary of the date of birth of the child or young person to whom they relate, or if the child dies before attaining the age of 18, for a period of fifteen years beginning with and including the date of his death.
(2) The requirement in paragraph (1) may be complied with by retaining the original written records or copies of them, or by keeping all or part of the information contained in them in some other accessible form such as a computer record.
(3) The records mentioned in paragraph (1) must be kept securely and may not be disclosed to any person except in accordance with –
(a)any statutory provision under which access to such records is authorised; or
(b)any court order authorising access to such records.
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