# Coronavirus (Scotland) (No.2) Act 2020, Paragraph 7


(1) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as practicable after Royal Assent, establish and maintain a fund to be known as the “social care staff support fund”.
(2) The Scottish Ministers must use the fund to provide financial assistance to workers in the social care sector—
(a) whose ability to undertake contracted health and care work is, or has been, restricted, for a reason relating to coronavirus (such as, but not limited to, inability to work in multiple or linked workplaces), and
(b) as a result of that restriction, whose income is reduced and consequently would experience, or are experiencing, financial hardship during the period when Part 1 is in force.
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(7) In sub-paragraph (2), the “social care sector” includes any care service within the meaning given in section 47 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/10/schedule/1/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/coronavirus-scotland-no2-act-2020/schedule-1/paragraph-7
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