Article 2 Specification of social care workers
The social care workers described in paragraph (2) below are specified for the purposes of section 56(1)(b) of the Act (duty of the Council to maintain a register of social care workers specified by order)f1.
The description of social care workers is those persons —
who fall within any of the descriptions in section 55(2)(b) to (d) of the Actf2;
who ordinarily perform some work in Wales or expect to do so; and
in respect of whom the Secretary of State may, by virtue of that work, issue a criminal record certificate under section 113(1) or 115(1) of the Police Act 1997f3.
Annotations
Footnotes
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This is the second group of social care workers to be specified for the purposes of registration with the Council under section 56(1)(b). The first group was student social workers specified by S.I. 2004/709 (W.76).
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A person falls within section 55(2)(b) if he or she is employed at a children’s home, care home or residential family centre or for the purposes of a domiciliary care agency, a fostering agency or a voluntary adoption agency. A person falls within section 55(2)(c) if he or she manages an establishment, or an agency, of a description mentioned in section 55(2)(b). A person falls within section 55(2)(d) if he or she is supplied by a domiciliary care agency to provide personal care in their own homes for persons who by reason of illness, infirmity or disability are unable to provide it for themselves without assistance.
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