The Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Order 2005 No. 318

Description of social service worker

2.  For the purposes of section 44(1)(b) of the Act, the description of social service worker prescribed is, subject to article 3, a person who is–

(a) an employee of the Commission who is also an authorised person within the meaning of sections 25 and 27 of the Act;

(b) a residential child care worker who is the manager of a residential child care service;

(c) a residential child care worker who–

(i) does not fall within paragraph (b); and

(ii) supervises any other residential child care worker; or

(d) a residential child care worker who does not fall within either paragraph (b) or paragraph (c)(ii).