PART 6SOCIAL CARE WORKERS: FITNESS TO PRACTISE

CHAPTER 2PRELIMINARY PROCEDURES

Investigation

I1127Notice: referral or disposal

1

SCW must give notice to the persons listed in subsection (2) of—

a

the referral of a matter to an interim orders panel under section 125(2);

b

the referral of a matter to a fitness to practise panel under section 126(2);

c

the way in which the matter has been disposed of under section 126(3).

2

The persons are—

a

the registered person to whom the matter relates, and

b

where the matter was the subject of an allegation mentioned in section 118(1)(a), the person who made the allegation.

3

SCW may give notice to any other person of the referral or disposal of a matter under section 126 if satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so.

4

A notice under this section must give the reasons for the referral.