We updated our Thresholds Guidance last year to help make it clearer when to raise a fitness to practise concern with us. A year on we want to remind employers what they need to refer to us.

We’re always looking for ways to improve our fitness to practise processes for everyone involved, including witnesses. Here we explain what support we offer.

The COVID-19 lockdown prompted our move to online fitness to practise hearings. However, moving online didn’t just mean we were able to keep holding hearings but also that more registrants are able to take part.

Book now for the Advanced Social Work Practice Framework workshops to play your part in developing the new framework. There are six free workshops in locations across Scotland.

We receive proportionately more fitness to practise referrals about workers in residential childcare more than any other part of our Register. Here we share some data about this and resources to help support you in your practice.

Of the 166,745 people on our Register only 1.13% of registrants currently have a case being considered by our Fitness to Practise Department.

We’ve joined a UK wide study looking at the impact on witnesses.

Employers and higher educational institutions (HEI) can now make a referral about a registered worker through their MySSSC account.  

We are looking for people to sit as independent Panel Members on the Scottish Social Services Council’s (SSSC) Fitness to Practise Panels.

We have changed our fitness to practise thresholds to make it clearer when raising concerns about a worker.

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.

We’re changing our fitness to practise hearings process. From this summer we will only hold a hearing when a worker asks for one.