Connected Person

Amended April 2011

A relative, friend or other person connected with a child.  The latter is someone who would not fit the term 'relative or friend', but who has a pre-existing relationship with the child.  It could be someone who knows the child in a more professional capacity such as (for example) a childminder, a teacher or a youth worker.

Relative is defined as “a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt (whether of the full blood or half blood or by marriage or civil partnership) or step-parent”.