{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-children-act-2004-information-database-england-regulations-2007/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-children-act-2004-information-database-england-regulations-2007/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110777450",
  "legislation_title": "The Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-children-act-2004-information-database-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Archived information",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4), and so far as it is not already archived information, information in a child record becomes archived information on the earliest of the dates specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) In the case of—\n(a) a child record for a child who is not a participating young person, the date on which he attains the age of 18;\n(b) a child record for a participating young person, the date on which he attains the age of 25, or (if earlier) the date on which his consent to the information being contained in the child record is withdrawn;\n(c) a child record for a person who ceases to be ordinarily resident in England, the date on which the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families or the local authority responsible for his child record becomes aware that he is no longer ordinarily resident in England and that it is unlikely he will resume ordinary residence in England within three years from that date;\n(d) a child record for a person who has died, the first anniversary of his death;\n(e) information of the description specified in paragraph 7 of Schedule 1, the date one year after the date on which the person ceased to attend the educational institution or to receive education otherwise than at an educational institution;\n(f) information of the description specified in paragraph 8 of Schedule 1, the date one year after the date on which the provision of the services to which that information relates ended;\n(g) information of the description specified in paragraph 9 of Schedule 1, the date of the expiry of the period in the statement described in paragraph 15 of that Schedule relating to that information (that period to be measured from the date on which the provision of the service ended);\n(h) information of the description specified in paragraph 10 of Schedule 1, the date one year after the date on which information about a subsequent assessment of the person under the system known as the Common Assessment Framework has been added to the child record;\n(i) information of a description specified in any of paragraphs 11 to 13 of Schedule 1, the date of the expiry of the period in the statement described in paragraph 15 of that Schedule relating to that information (that period to be measured from the date on which the services of the health visitor, school nurse or midwife ended);\n(j) information of the description in paragraph 14 or 15 of Schedule 1, the date on which the information to which it relates becomes archived information.\n(3) The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families or the local authority responsible for a child record may decide that information in a child record that has become archived information by virtue of paragraph (2)(c) should no longer be archived information if the person is a child who again becomes ordinarily resident in England.\n(4) The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families or the local authority responsible for a child record may at any time decide that information in a child record should become archived information.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Common Assessment Framework for children & young people: Practitioners’ guide was published by the Department for Education and Skills in April 2006, ISBN 1 84478-707-9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110777450/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:17:42.036655+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."
}