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The Registration of Social Workers and Social Service Workers in Care Services (Scotland) Regulations 2013

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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Registration of Social Workers and Social Service Workers in Care Services (Scotland) Regulations 2013 No. 227

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3.—(1) A provider of a care service may only employ a social worker in a care service who complies with regulation 4.

(2) A provider of a care service may only employ a social service worker in a care service who complies with regulation 5 or 6.

(3) In the inspection of a care service, SCSWIS may only employ––

(a)a social worker who complies with regulation 4; and

(b)a social service worker who complies with regulation 5, or who in terms of regulation 7 is exempt from the requirements of regulation 5.

(4) It is an offence to fail to comply with the requirements of this regulation without reasonable excuse.

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