PART 6SOCIAL CARE WORKERS: FITNESS TO PRACTISE

CHAPTER 3DISPOSAL OF FITNESS TO PRACTISE CASES

I1136Other consensual disposal by fitness to practise panel: undertakings

1

A fitness to practise panel may agree undertakings with the registered person if the person admits that his or her fitness to practise is impaired.

2

SCW must disclose details of the undertakings to any person—

a

by whom, to the knowledge of SCW, the registered person is employed as a social care worker;

b

who, to the knowledge of SCW, has an arrangement with the registered person for the registered person to provide services to a third party in his or her capacity as a social care worker;

c

from whom, to the knowledge of SCW, the registered person is seeking such employment or such an arrangement;

d

as may be prescribed.

3

But SCW may not disclose to any person details of any undertaking which relates solely to the registered person's physical or mental health.

4

SCW may by rules make provision about undertakings agreed with a fitness to practise panel under this section; and the rules may, in particular, make provision about the matters specified in section 129(2) (procedure to be followed for agreement of undertakings etc.).

5

Rules under subsection (4) may include provision in respect of undertakings agreed, confirmed or varied on a review under section 138(4), 152(5) or (6), 153(4), 154(4) or 155(7).