Required provision of information to parents
20.—(1) Where a written request concerning a registered provider has been received from a person prescribed in paragraph (2), a childminder agency must, pursuant to section 84A(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 the childminder agency in relation to that registered provider.
(2) The prescribed persons are the parents of children to whom childcare is being or has been provided by the registered provider referred to in paragraph (1) or the parents of children for whom it is proposed that the registered provider will provide childcare.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the prescribed information is the information specified in paragraphs 1 to 4, 7, 16, 18 and 20 of Schedule 2.
(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 the parent’s 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 childminder agency or any other person or body; or
(d)where the information has previously been provided by the childminder agency to that parent.