Information
44Supply of information to the Welsh Ministers
The Welsh Ministers may at any time require any person registered under this Part to provide them with any information connected with the person’s activities as a child minder or in providing day care which the Welsh Ministers consider it necessary to have for the purposes of their functions under this Part.
45Supply of information to local authorities
(1)The Welsh Ministers must provide prescribed information to the relevant local authority, if they take any of the following steps under this Part—
(a)grant a person’s application for registration;
(b)give notice of their intention to cancel a person’s registration;
(c)cancel a person’s registration;
(d)suspend a person’s registration;
(e)remove a person from the register at that person’s request.
(2)The Welsh Ministers must also provide prescribed information to the relevant local authority if an order is made under section 34(2).
(3)The information which may be prescribed for the purposes of this section is information which would assist the local authority in the discharge of its functions under section 27 of the Childcare Act 2006 (c. 21).
(4)In this section, “the relevant local authority” means the local authority for the area in which the person acts as a child minder (or has so acted) or provides (or has provided) day care in respect of which the person is (or was) registered.
(5)The Welsh Ministers may provide information to a person exercising statutory functions (for purposes connected to those functions) about whether or not a person is registered under this Part.