(1)SCW may make rules requiring persons registered in any part of the register to undertake further training.
(2)The rules may, in particular, make provision with respect to persons who fail to comply with any requirements of rules made by SCW under subsection (1), including provision for referrals to a fitness to practise panel.
(3)Subsection (1), so far as relating to a person (“P”) who is registered as a social worker only in the visiting European part of the register, has effect subject to subsection (4).
(4)Rules made under subsection (1)—
(a)may not impose requirements on P if P is required to undertake, in P’s home State, further training in relation to the profession of social worker, but
(b)where they impose requirements on P—
(i)must take into account of the fact that P is a fully qualified social worker in P’s home State, and
(ii)must specify that training which P is required to undertake may be undertaken outside the United Kingdom.
(5)In subsection (4) “home State”, in relation to P, means the relevant European State in which P is lawfully established as a social worker.