http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/section/99/notesNursery schoolsFamily supportLegislationChildmindingChild careExplanatory Notes to Childcare Act 2006Department for Education and SkillsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2014-03-05 21 11 July 2006 183 Section 99(1) allows regulations to make provision requiring all registered early years providers, and school-based providers who are exempted from registration requirements by section 34(2), to provide individual child information to the Secretary of State or any prescribed person. The intention is to prescribe local authorities. 184 The section also makes provision for the disclosure of individual child information by the Secretary of State, an information collator and other persons holding individual child information. An information collator is an organisation collating data on behalf of the Secretary of State. 185 The section prohibits the publishing of any information received by or under it in any form which includes the name of the child or children to whom it relates. 186 The section is based on section 537A of the Education Act 1996 which provides for data to be collected in relation to children educated in schools.