Session 2012 - 13
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| | Children and Families Bill Committee 241-302 |
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| | Children and Families Bill |
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| | | Information sharing about live births |
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| | To move the following Clause:— |
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| | | ‘(1) | NHS trusts should make arrangements to share with local authorities records of |
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| | | live births to parents resident in their area, to be used by the local authority for the |
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| | | purposes of identifying and contacting new families through children’s centres |
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| | | and any other early years outreach services it may operate. |
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5 | | (2) | The Secretary of State must, within a period of six months of Royal Assent to this |
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| | | Act, bring forward regulations placing consequential requirements on trusts and |
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| | | local authorities in exercising their duty under subsection (1), including, but not |
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| | | (a) | the format of arrangements made; |
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10 | | (b) | the safeguarding of information; |
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| | | (c) | the circumstances in which it would not be appropriate for a trust to |
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| | | provide information to local authorities; |
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| | | (d) | the regularity of data transfers; |
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| | | (e) | timescales within which a local authority must contact new families |
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| | | (f) | any further requirements the Secretary of State deems necessary.’. |
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| | | As an Amendment to Mrs Sharon Hodgson’s proposed New Clause (Information |
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| | | sharing about live births) (NC18):— |
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| | | ‘(3) | Local authorities must establish a pilot scheme to trial the registration of births |
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| | | within children’s centres, and evaluate the effectiveness of the scheme to— |
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| | | (a) | identify and contact new families; and |
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| | | (b) | enable children centres to reach more families, in particular those with |
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| | | children under the age of two, or who the local authority consider— |
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| | | Independent study: registration of births at children’s centres |
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| | To move the following Clause:— |
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| | | ‘(1) | The Secretary of State shall commission an independent study of the likely |
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| | | impact on the welfare of children of requiring births to be registered at children’s |
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| | | (2) | The Secretary of State may, by regulations, establish pilot schemes to trial the |
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| | | registration of births within children’s centres, to inform the independent study |
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| | | (3) | In this section “children centre” has the meaning given by section 5A(4) |
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| | | (Arrangements for provision of children’s centres) of the Childcare Act 2006.’. |
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