SCHEDULEAMENDMENT OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE 2018 REGULATIONS

9.  For paragraph 13(2) substitute—

(2) A removal order may only be made in a case where—

(a)the adjudicators found the social worker’s fitness to practise to be impaired on one or more of the grounds set out in regulation 25(2)(a), (c), (d), (f), or (g),

(b)the adjudicators found the social worker’s fitness to practise to be impaired on one or more of the grounds set out in regulation 25(2)(b), (e) or (h) and the social worker was either suspended from practice, or subject to a conditions of practice order, or a combination of both, for a continuous period of two years immediately preceding the day when the removal order took effect, or

(c)the case examiners—

(i)found that there was a realistic prospect that the adjudicators would make a determination that the social worker’s fitness to practise was impaired on one or more of the grounds set out in regulation 25(2)(a), (c), (d), (f), or (g), and

(ii)have both disposed of the case in accordance with paragraph 9(3)(a) and informed the persons specified in paragraph 9(3)(b)..