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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-care-and-social-work-improvement-scotland-excepted-services-regulations-2012/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2012/9780111015612",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Excepted Services) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-care-and-social-work-improvement-scotland-excepted-services-regulations-2012",
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  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Support services",
  "text": "There is excepted from the definition of “support service” in paragraph 1 of schedule 12 to the Act any service which consists wholly of one or more of the following:—\n(a) field social work;\n(b) counselling, other than counselling which is provided in residential accommodation as part of a planned programme of care; or\n(c) a service providing assistance to a person to enable that person to prepare for, obtain, or engage in any work.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2012/9780111015612/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:36:53.404549+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}