The Social Workers Regulations 2018 No. 893

SCHEDULE 2 E+W Fitness to practise proceedings

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) (2.12.2019) by The Children and Social Work Act 2017 (Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Social Workers) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1140), regs. 1, 16; S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(b)

PART 2 E+W Investigation

Notifying the social worker and the complainant E+W

4.—(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.