C1SCHEDULE 2Fitness to practise proceedings

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PART 2Investigation

Notifying the social worker and the complainant4

1

The investigators must—

a

notify the social worker of the grounds for investigating whether their fitness to practise is impaired,

b

require the social worker to provide details of—

i

any person by whom they are, or have been, employed to provide services as a social worker or in relation to social work,

ii

any person with whom they have, or had, an arrangement to provide services as a social worker or in relation to social work, and

iii

any regulatory body with which they are registered, and

c

invite the social worker to make written submissions.

2

Where the fitness to practise proceedings were instigated following a complaint against the social worker, the investigators may—

a

provide the complainant with a copy of any written submissions made by the social worker, and

b

invite the complainant to make written submissions in response.