{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accommodation-of-children-charge-and-controlregulations-1988/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2183",
  "legislation_title": "The Accommodation of Children (Charge and Control)Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accommodation-of-children-charge-and-controlregulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Retention of and access to case records",
  "text": "(1) Any case record compiled in accordance with regulation 14 or a complete recording thereof, shall be retained for at least 75 years beginning with the date of birth of the child to whom it relates or, if the child has died before attaining the age of 18 the period of 15 years beginning with the date of his death.\n(2) A local authority shall secure the safe keeping of records compiled in accordance with regulation 14 and shall take all necessary steps to ensure that information contained therein is treated as confidential.\n(3) Case records compiled in accordance with regulation 14 or, as the case may be, a complete recording thereof, shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times by any person duly authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State.\n(4) A local authority shall provide such access as may be required to case records compiled in accordance with regulation 14 or a complete recording thereof and information about a particular child—\n(a) to the child’s guardian ad litem, and\n(b) subject to the provisions of section 29(7) and 32(3) of the Local Government Act 1974 (investigations and disclosure), to the Local Commissioner appointed under section 23 of that Act, for the purpose of any investigation conducted in accordance with Part III of that Act.\n(5) A local authority may make and preserve a complete recording of any record compiled in accordance with regulation 14 and may destroy any record of which they have made a recording which reproduces the total contents of such record.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2183/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:52:49.788471+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}