Regulation 10 Retention and confidentiality of records

(1)

Records relating to assessments, pathway plans and their review shall be retained by the responsible local authority until the seventy-fifth anniversary of the date of birth of the child or young person 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 the child’s death.

(2)

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.

(3)

The records mentioned in paragraph (1) 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;

(b)

any court order authorising access to such records.