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13 Jun 2025

Revised Decisions Guidance and Practice Notes

We’ve updated our Decisions Guidance for Fitness to Practise Panels and SSSC staff and also published a range of Practice Notes to provide further guidance on legal issues that can arise during Fitness to Practise Panel hearings. 

Professional standards

13 Jun 2025

Need support? The Fitness to Practise Wellbeing Support Line is here for you

We’ve expanded access to our Fitness to Practise Wellbeing Support Line to make sure more people can get the help they need. 

Professional standards

11 Mar 2025

Dealing with racism and discrimination

Everyone in the social work, social care and children and young people workforce in Scotland has the right to feel safe at work. Racism and other forms of discriminatory conduct are unacceptable.

Professional standards SSSC Codes of Practice

11 Mar 2025

Fitness to practise and day care of children services

Day care of children services was one of the first groups on our Register with required registration coming in almost 20 years ago.

Professional standards SSSC Codes of Practice

12 Dec 2024

Making sure Fitness to Practise Panels are fair and independent

Fitness to Practise Panels play a key role in the fair, independent and transparent regulation of the social work, social care and children and young people workforce. They make decisions on fitness to practise cases in the name of the SSSC but are independent. 

Professional standards

12 Dec 2024

Inappropriate behaviour in the workplace

Social service workers, like anybody else, have the right to a safe place of work, free from harassment and from other harmful acts. Unfortunately, as with any other sector, there are cases of inappropriate behaviour in social service workplaces.  

Professional standards

11 Dec 2024

What are the benefits of workers applying for registration within three months?

Following the changes to our Register earlier this year, workers now need to apply for registration within three months of starting their role. They still need to be registered within six months as before.  

SSSC registration Professional standards Employers

16 Sep 2024

NQSW Supported Year and fitness to practise

We get very few fitness to practise referrals for Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW), however the introduction of the NQSW Supported Year from this October may influence the kinds of referrals we receive.

Professional standards SSSC Codes of Practice

13 Jun 2024

National Occupational Standards (NOS) Review 2024/25

We are working with partners across the UK to review the National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Health and Social Care and Childcare learning and development.

Consultations and surveys Professional standards Social service workforce

15 Feb 2024

Next steps for the revised Codes

We’re in the final stages of the Codes of Practice review. Over the past two years, we gathered feedback and ideas from registrants, employers, learning providers, people experiencing care and other key stakeholders.

SSSC Codes of Practice Professional standards

07 Feb 2024

Are you passionate about protecting people who use social services?

We are looking for people to sit as independent Panel Members on the Scottish Social Services Council’s (SSSC) Fitness to Practise Panels for 20 days per year. We are looking to people who do not have a background in social services (lay members).

Professional standards

31 Jan 2024

New fitness to practise data report

A new data report by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) provides an insight into its role in protecting the public by ensuring the registered workforce is trusted, skilled and fit to practise.

Professional standards Workforce data SSSC Codes of Practice