Professional Bodies and Supervisory Authorities Section 43: Registers: notice of barring and cessation of monitoring
135.This section makes provision for the sharing of information by the Secretary of State and the IBB with the General Teaching Councils for England and Wales, the General Social Care Council and the Care Council for Wales. The section places a duty on the Secretary of State to inform the body if an individual that he thinks is on the body’s register becomes barred. In this case, the Secretary of State must also require the IBB to provide the body with all the information on which the IBB relied in coming to its decision to bar. This will enable the body to make a decision about whether to remove an individual from its register or place conditions on the individual’s registration. Similarly the Secretary of State must inform these professional or regulatory bodies if an individual that he thinks is on the register ceases to be subject to monitoring.
136.The IBB must also provide the General Teaching Councils for England and Wales, the General Social Care Council and the Care Council for Wales with relevant information that it holds about an individual who it thinks is on the body’s register. This applies regardless of whether the information has led the IBB to bar the individual. For this duty to be invoked, the information must be relevant to the protection of children or vulnerable adults and to the exercise of the functions of the body concerned. The duty does not apply to: