Commentary on Sections and Schedules Part 4 – Miscellaneous and General Section 101:  Provision of information about children: Wales
188.Section 101(1) allows regulations to make provision, in relation to Wales, requiring childminders and providers of day care registered under Part 10A of the Children Act 1989, and providers of funded nursery education, to provide individual child information to the Assembly or any prescribed person.
189.The section also makes provision for the disclosure of individual child information by the Assembly, an information collator and other persons holding individual child information. An information collator is an organisation collating data on behalf of the Assembly.
190.The section prohibits the publishing of any information received by or under it in any form which includes the name of the child or children to whom it relates.
191.The section is based on section 537A of the Education Act 1996 which provides for data to be collected in relation to children educated in schools.