PART 3LOCAL AUTHORITY PUBLIC HEALTH FUNCTIONS

Disclosure of information to the Information Centre

15.—(1) Information resulting from a weighing and measuring exercise which has been conducted in accordance with these Regulations, together with personal information relating to the children concerned, shall be disclosed to the Information Centre by the local authority which provided for that exercise and may be further processed by or on behalf of the authority for that purpose.

(2) Information disclosed under paragraph (1) to the Information Centre may be further processed by the Information Centre—

(a)for use by the Information Centre for the purposes of surveillance, research, monitoring, audit or the planning of health services; and

(b)for disclosure in accordance with regulation 16.

(3) The information which must be disclosed under paragraph (1) shall include—

(a)the date on which the weighing and measuring exercise took place;

(b)the height and weight of each child who participated in the weighing and measuring exercise, together with—

(i)the personal information of a description specified in regulation 9(a) to (d) relating to the child concerned, and

(ii)where such information is available to the local authority, the personal information of a description specified in regulation 9(e) to (f) relating to that child;

(c)supplementary information relating to the administration of the weighing and measuring exercise including—

(i)the rate of participation in the weighing and measuring exercise among children who were invited to take part in the exercise; and

(ii)the arrangements for communicating the results of the exercise to the parents of children concerned.