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28 Mar 2022
We have changed our fitness to practise thresholds to make it clearer when raising concerns about a worker.
01 Jul 2021
Our fitness to practise hearings process changed to opt in hearings from 1 July 2021. This means we will only hold a hearing if a worker disagrees with the outcome of our investigation and asks for one.
03 Jun 2021
We’re changing our fitness to practise hearings process. From this summer we will only hold a hearing when a worker asks for one.
07 Jan 2021
If any of your employees are involved in a fitness to practice investigation and you also have involvement in their case, as their employer, we will be setting up an account for you in our fitness to practise online portal.
22 Dec 2020
Earlier this year, before the pandemic, we spent the day at Capability Scotland, Dundee to find out how they work to the standards set out in the SSSC Code of Practice for Social Service Workers in everyday situations and how it reinforces their day-to-day work.
SSSC Codes of Practice Social service workforce Professional standards
16 Nov 2020
We have published new guidance, Wilful neglect, ill-treatment and corporate homicide, for social service workers and care providers who deliver social care and health services and support to adults, in partnership with the Care Inspectorate.
20 Mar 2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created uncertainty for social work students so we’ve agreed contingency plans with the Heads of Social Work Programmes in Scotland to help mitigate the impact on them.
09 Mar 2020
From this autumn universities will be embedding the revised Standards in Social Work Education in their social work programmes.
03 Mar 2020
We understand that as health and care professionals you may be feeling anxious about Novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Social service workforce Professional standards SSSC Codes of Practice SSSC corporate
25 Sep 2019
When you make a fitness to practise referral about a registered worker there’s key information we need to know and it’s important that you give us as much of it as possible right from the start.
03 Sep 2019
We’re working with the University of Strathclyde Law Clinic to help more SSSC registered workers to access free representation when they are involved in our fitness to practise investigations and hearings.