# The Care Leavers (England) Regulations 2010, Regulation 10: Records

Extent: E+W

(1) The responsible authority must establish and maintain a written case record for each relevant child and former relevant child (“the case record”).
(2) The case record must include the written records required by virtue of regulation 4(3), and regulation 5(3)(a) to (c), and the following records (“relevant records”)—
(a) any assessment of needs,
(b) any pathway plan,
(c) any review of a pathway plan.
(3) Relevant records must be retained by the responsible authority until the seventy-fifth anniversary of the date of birth of the relevant or former relevant child to whom they relate or, if the child dies before attaining the age of 18, for a period of fifteen years beginning with the date of death.
(4) The requirement in paragraph (1) may be complied with by retaining the original written records or copies of them, or by keeping all or part of the information contained in them in some other accessible form such as a computer record.
(5) Relevant records must be kept securely and may not be disclosed to any person except in accordance with—
(a) any provision of, or made under or by virtue of, a statute under which access to such records is authorised, or
(b) any court order authorising access to such records.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2571/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/care-leavers-england-regulations-2010/regulation-10
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