2012 No. 1278

Children And Young Persons, England

The Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) (Revocation) Regulations 2012

Made

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12(4)(f) and (h), (5), (6), (7)(f), (8)(e), (10) and (11) and 66(1)(c) of the Children Act 20041;

In accordance with section 66(3) of that Act a draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) (Revocation) Regulations 2012 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Revocations2

The following Regulations are revoked—

a

the Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) Regulations 20072;

b

the Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) (Amendment) Regulations 20103.

Consequential Amendments

3

In Schedule 2 to the Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 20084 omit paragraph 15.

4

In Schedule 3 to the Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 20105 omit paragraph 76.

5

In the Schedule to the Secretary of State for Education Order 20106 omit paragraph 8.

Timothy P LoughtonParliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment for Education
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made under section 12 of the Children Act 2004 and revoke the Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) Regulations 2007 (“the ContactPoint Regulations”) and the Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010, which amended the ContactPoint Regulations. These Regulations also revoke other provisions which amended the ContactPoint Regulations.

The ContactPoint Regulations came into force on 31st July 2007 and made provision in relation to the establishment and operation of the database of information about children in England known as ContactPoint. ContactPoint was closed down on 6th August 2010 and the data has been destroyed. The revocation of the ContactPoint Regulations reflects the closure of the database.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as the impact on the public, private and voluntary sectors is negligible, due to the fact that the database has already been closed down.