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Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 Explanatory Notes

Section 18 – Meaning of social care worker: childcare workers

76.Section 18 amends section 79 of the 2016 Act to provide Welsh Ministers with the power by regulations to extend the definition of social care workers for the purpose of the 2016 Act to include childcare workers (including play workers).

77.Childcare workers are individuals who are employed by or work (including as agency workers) for a person registered under Part 2 of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 as a day care provider, to provide care and supervision to children.

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