Commentary on Sections and Schedules Part 4 – Miscellaneous and General Section 99:  Provision of information about young children: England
183.Section 99(1) allows regulations to make provision requiring all registered early years providers, and school-based providers who are exempted from registration requirements by section 34(2), to provide individual child information to the Secretary of State or any prescribed person. The intention is to prescribe local authorities.
184.The section also makes provision for the disclosure of individual child information by the Secretary of State, an information collator and other persons holding individual child information. An information collator is an organisation collating data on behalf of the Secretary of State.
185.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.
186.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.