Commentary on Sections Part 6 - the Children’s Commissioner Section 2C: Primary function: reports
443.New section 2C (inserted into the 2004 Act by section 107) relates to reports that the Commissioner publishes following any investigations that he or she has undertaken in carrying out the primary function. Subsection (2) requires the Commissioner to publish a report in a child-friendly format where the Commissioner considers it appropriate to do so. Under subsection (3), it is open to the Commissioner to require persons exercising functions of a public nature to set out in writing, within a time period specified by the Commissioner, what action they are taking or proposing to take in response to recommendations. A person is not obliged to accept recommendations that the Commissioner makes, but if they do not intend to implement a recommendation, they should set out in writing the reasons for not doing so.