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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-social-service-workers-scotland-amendment-order-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/611",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-social-service-workers-scotland-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 44(1) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (2001 asp 8) requires the Scottish Social Services Council to maintain a register of social workers, social service workers of any other description prescribed and persons participating in a course or employed in a position probationary to becoming either a social worker or social service worker of a qualified description.\nThis Order amends the Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/318) by inserting two additional descriptions of social service worker for this purpose, namely the manager of an adult day care service and the manager of a care home service for adults. These expressions are also defined.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/611/note",
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  "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."
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