The Social Workers Regulations 2018 (Version in vigour from 2022-07-01 to )
| Currency | No known outstanding effects |
| Coming into Force | 01 July 2022 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Workers Regulations 2018.(2) Subject to paragraph (3) , these Regulations come into force on the date on which section 39(1) of the Act comes into force.(3) Regulation 40 (amendment to the Equality Act 2010) comes into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.(1) In these Regulations—
- “the Act” means the Children and Social Work Act 2017;
- “the Authority” means the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care established by section 25(1) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 ;
- “adjudicator” means an individual appointed under regulation 15(12) , 16(4) , 19(3) or 25(7) (c) ;
- “adviser” has the meaning given in regulation 4(2) ;
- “AMHPs course” has the meaning given in regulation 20(1) (d) ;
- “appointee” has the meaning given in regulation 37(3) (c) ;
- “approved course of initial education or training” has the meaning given in regulation 20(2) ;
- “approved qualification” has the meaning given in regulation 20(2) ;
- “case examiner” means an individual appointed under regulation 25(7) (b) ;
- “conditions of practice order” has the meaning given in paragraph 13(1) (c) of Schedule 2;
- “custodial sentence” has the meaning given in section 76 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 F55or section 222 of the Sentencing Code;
- “education and training approval scheme” has the meaning given in regulation 20(1) ;
- “fitness to practise proceedings” has the meaning given in regulation 25(1) (a) ;
- “function”, in relation to the regulator, has the meaning given in regulation 8(3) ;
- “inspector” has the meaning given in regulation 21(2) ;
- “interim conditions of practice order” has the meaning given in paragraph 8(5) (b) of Schedule 2;
- “interim suspension order” has the meaning given in paragraph 8(5) (a) of Schedule 2;
- “investigator” means an individual appointed under regulation 25(7) (a) ;
- “listed offence” has the meaning given in regulation 26(8) ;
- “necessary knowledge of English” means a knowledge of the English language which is necessary for safe and effective practice as a social worker;
- “professional standards” means professional standards determined and published by the regulator under section 41(1) of the Act ;
- “register” means the register described in section 39(1) of the Act;
- “registrar” means any person appointed under regulation 8(1) ;
- “regulatory body” means a body, other than the regulator, which authorises a person to practise a health or social care profession which is regulated under any enactment, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere; ...
- “relevant institutions” has the meaning given in regulation 20(5) ;
- “remedial direction” has the meaning given in regulation 36(2) (b) ;
- “removal order” has the meaning given in paragraph 13(1) (a) of Schedule 2;
- “rules” means rules made in accordance with regulation 3;
- “suspension order” has the meaning given in paragraph 13(1) (b) of Schedule 2; and
- “warning order” has the meaning given in paragraph 13(1) (d) of Schedule 2.
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