Required provision of information to parents
10.—(1) Where a written request concerning a registered person 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 —
(a)assisting parents in choosing an early years or later years provider, or
(b)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 registered person.
(2) The prescribed persons referred to in paragraph (1) are the parents of children to whom childcare is being or has been provided by the registered person referred to in paragraph (1).
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the prescribed information referred to in paragraph (1) is the information specified in—
(a)paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 1;
(b)paragraphs 13 and 14 of Part 2 of Schedule 1, and
(c)paragraph 16 of Part 3 of Schedule 1.
(4) Any information referred to in paragraph (3) is not to be treated as prescribed information—
(a)where the information is available to the parent, to whom it would fall to be provided, by other means reasonably at his disposal;
(b)where to provide the information would involve disproportionate effort or expense;
(c)where the circumstances indicate that the information is or may be sought in contemplation or furtherance of civil proceedings against the Chief Inspector or any other person or body; or
(d)where the information has previously been provided by the Chief Inspector to that parent.