Scottish Social Services Council - registration requirements: consultation on proposed changes

Proposals for Change

This consultation seeks your views on various proposed changes to registration requirements which will further strengthen the SSSC’s ability to deliver their public protection functions. These changes are:

• mandating the registration of three new groups of social service workers with the SSSC, following findings from the SSSC’s consultation on New Registered Groups. These groups are social work assistants, workers in adult day care services and workers in offender accommodation services. This will mean that anyone working as a social work assistant, worker in adult day care services or worker in offender accommodation services in Scotland will have to be registered with the SSSC.
• mandating that all social workers working in Scotland are registered with the SSSC
• updating the list of organisations which a social service worker can be registered with, which excludes them from the requirement to be registered with the SSSC.