Regulation 14 Confidentiality and preservation of case records

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 14(4) added by Adoption Agencies and Children (Arrangements for Placement and Reviews) 1997 reg.2(14)
reg. 14(4) words inserted by Children (Protection from Offenders) 1997 reg. 2(7)(a)
reg. 14(4) words substituted by Children (Protection from Offenders) 1997 reg. 2(7)(b)
reg 14 appl (mods) by Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) 2003 reg 35, Sch 4

(1)

Subject to regulation 15, any information obtained or recommendations or decisions made by virtue of these regulations shall be treated by the adoption agency as confidential.

(2)

Where a case record has been set up by an adoption agency under regulations 7(2)(a), 8(2)(a) or 9(3) in respect of a child or a prospective adopter, any report, recommendation or decision made by that agency by virtue of these regulations in respect of that child or that prospective adopter shall be placed on the case record relating to that child or, as the case may be, that prospective adopter, and any case records set up by the agency together with the indexes to them shall be kept in a place of special security.

(3)

Subject to regulation 16(2), an adoption agency shall preserve the indexes to all its case records and the case records in respect of those cases in which an adoption order is made in a place of special security for at least 75 years and shall preserve other case records in a place of special security for so long as it considers appropriate, so however that any case records and indexes may be so preserved on microfilm or such other system as reproduces the total contents of any such record or index.