# The Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Order 2024, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 44(1) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (“the Act”) 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 a social service worker of a qualified description.
The Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Order 2005 (“the 2005 Order”) (as amended) prescribed a description of social service worker for the purposes of section 44(1)(b) of the Act.
This Order revokes the 2005 Order and all amending Orders and prescribes a description of social service worker for the purposes of section 44(1)(b) of the Act. Article 2 provides that the description of social service worker prescribed is a person who is either a social care worker or a children and young people’s worker.
The Order provides that persons who are registered with, or are a member of one or more of, the bodies set out in article 3 are excluded from the description of social service worker.
Article 4 of the Order provides for a transitional provision, the effect of which is that people registered under section 44(1)(b) of the Act, by virtue of article 2 of the 2005 Order, immediately before 3rd June 2024 are to be treated as if registered under the relevant description as provided for under article 2 of this Order, namely a social care worker description or a children and young people’s worker description.
Article 5 of the Order revokes the 2005 Order and all instruments which amended it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/56/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-social-service-workers-scotland-order-2024/note
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