Cheryl Campbell Senior Registration Officer Registration and Regulation

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

Contact the SSSC

The Scottish Social Services CouncilCompass House11 Riverside DriveDundeeDD1 4NY

Telephone: - 0845 60 30 [email protected]

Alexis FitzgeraldSenior Conduct Case Officer

• Referring to Fitness to Practise

• What do you know about who gets referred to Fitness to Practise?

• 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

Fitness to Practice

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