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Cheryl Campbell
Senior Registration Officer
Registration and Regulation
Mandatory Registration
Part of the Register
Mandatory Registration
Social Workers
September 2005
All Residential Child Care Workers
September 2009
Adult Day Care and Care Home Managers
November 2009
SCSWIS Authorised Officers
March 2010
Managers in Day Care of Children Services
November 2010
Practitioners in Day Care of Children
Services
September 2011
Supervisors in Care Home Services
March 2012
Managers in School Care Accommodation
November 2012
Practitioners in Adult Care Home Services
29 March 2013
Supervisors in School Care Accommodation
30 April 2013
Future Dates for Mandatory
Registration
Part of the Register
Date of Mandatory
Registration
House Staff in School Care Accommodation
30 November 2013
Support Workers in Day Care of Children Services
30 June 2014
Housing Support & Care at Home Managers
31 January 2014
Support Workers in Adult Care Home Services
30 September 2015
Supervisors in Housing Support & Care at Home
Expected 2017
Workers in Housing Support & Care at Home
Expected 2020
New Workers
• Where mandatory registration is in place workers
starting in a new role have 6 months to achieve
registration.
• Although mandatory registration is not yet in place for
managers of housing support and care at home any new
worker into these roles is required to be registered
within six months of commencing their role.
Eligibility
• Workers must be working in a service regulated by the
Care Inspectorate to be eligible for registration.
• Workers already registered with another regulatory
body eg the Nursing and Midwifery Council are not
eligible for registration with the SSSC.
Register Parts
• How do I know which part of the Register I should be
applying for?
Workers should discuss this with their employers based
on:
• Definitions of register parts on the SSSC website
• The role the worker undertaking not their job title
Registration Subject to
Conditions
• The SSSC can register a worker subject to the condition
that they gain a qualification within a set period of time.
• Employers under the Codes of Practice are required to
support workers to gain their qualifications and monitor
their progress.
• Training plans should be in place to ensure that workers
achieve their qualification within the required timescale.
• Additional time may be granted if a worker has had
particular difficulties in achieving their qualification this
will only be considered in exceptional circumstances.
Who is responsible for
Registration?
• Employers are responsible for ensuring they are
employing registered workers – it can take up to 60
days to process an application for registration
• Workers are responsible for maintaining their
registration, including achieving qualifications
The SSSC can remove someone from the Register without
referral to a Registration Sub-Committee for the following
reasons:
• Non-Payment of Annual Fee
• Failure to Renew
• Failure to Meet a Condition
MySSSC
Applicants
•Apply online
Registrants
Employers
Universities
•Pay Fees
•Renew
Registration
•Change of Details
•PRTL
•Apply for
Registration
•View employee
details
•Report changes to
employee details
•Endorse
applications
•Maintain
•Student results
•Notification of
commencement
•View student
details
•Report changes to
student details
•Endorse
applications
countersignatories
Contact the SSSC
The Scottish Social Services Council
Compass House
11 Riverside Drive
Dundee
DD1 4NY
Telephone: - 0845 60 30 891
[email protected]
www.sssc.uk.com
Alexis Fitzgerald
Senior Conduct Case Officer
• Referring to Fitness to Practise
• What do you know about who gets
referred to Fitness to Practise?
Fitness to Practice
• Used to be known as Conduct
• FtP deals with referrals about applicants, registrants
and people not registered- from members of the
public; service users; employers; registered workers
and applicants
• Investigates allegations of misconduct; investigates
to determine if someone applying for registration is
of good character, conduct and competence
• Types of cases
• Makes recommendations and decisions about
registration- may be different from an employers
decision
What we need from
employers for
applicants/registrants
• Specificity
• Witness details and signed statements
• Kept up to date
• Informed when an allegation has been
made