Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016

160 Power to require information

(1) For the purpose of carrying out functions under this Part, SCW may require—

(a) a registered person, or

(b) any other person (other than a Minister of the Crown),

who SCW thinks is able to supply information or produce any document which appears relevant to the exercise of any such function, to supply that information or produce that document.

(2) SCW may, in particular, require the registered person whose fitness to practise is being investigated, to provide details of any person—

(a) by whom the registered person is employed as a social care worker;

(b) who has an arrangement with the registered person for the registered person to provide services to a third party in his or her capacity as a social care worker.

(3) Nothing in this section requires or permits any disclosure of information which is prohibited by any enactment or other rule of law.

(4) But where information is held in a form in which the prohibition operates because the information is capable of identifying an individual, SCW may require that the information be put in a form which is not capable of identifying that individual.

(5) If a person fails to supply any information or produce any document within 14 days, or such longer period as SCW may specify, of the person being required to do so under this section, SCW may apply to the tribunal for an order requiring the information to be supplied or the document to be produced.