Part 6: Miscellaneous Child Safeguarding: Information Sharing Section 179: Child Safeguarding: Information Sharing
This section requires the Secretary of State to publish and lay before Parliament, within one year of commencement of the section, a report describing the government’s policy in relation to information-sharing by or with public authorities in the exercise of children’s health and social care functions in England, for purposes relating to children’s health or social care or the safeguarding or promotion of the welfare of children. The section will commence three months after Royal Assent. Subsections (3) and (4) set out certain matters which must be covered in the report.