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The General Social Care Council (Description of Persons to be Treated as Social Care Workers) Regulations 2004

Approved social workers

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2014-10-10

SOCIAL CARE, ENGLAND

These Regulations, which apply to England only, are made under section 55(3)(g) of the Care Standards Act 2000 (“the Act”) and provide that persons who are undertaking a course which has been approved by the General Social Care Council under section 63 of the Act are to be treated as social care workers for the purposes of section 55 of the Act.