Health and Social Care Act 2008

124 Regulation of social care workers

(1) The appropriate Minister may by regulations make provision modifying the regulation of social care workers, so far as appears to the appropriate Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of securing or improving their regulation or the services which they provide or to which they contribute.

(2) Schedule 9 (which makes further provision about regulations under this section) has effect.

(3) In this section and that Schedule—

• “the appropriate Minister” means—

  (a)

  in relation to England, the Secretary of State, and

  (b)

  in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

• “social care worker” means a person who falls within any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (2) of, or paragraphs (a) to (g) of subsection (3) of, section 55 of the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14) (which sets out the persons who are, or may by virtue of regulations be treated as, social care workers for the purposes of Part 4 of that Act).

(4) The references in subsection (1) to the regulation of social care workers include references to—

(a) the regulation of social care workers of a description in relation to which no provision for registration for the time being applies,

(b) the regulation of those seeking registration as social care workers of any description or of persons who were, but are no longer, registered as social care workers of any description, and

(c) the regulation of activities carried on by persons who are not social care workers but which are carried on in connection with the activities carried on by social care workers.