These documents set out how we carry out our regulatory function and provide guidance to decision makers on when to apply the different sanctions available to them.
The SSSC Combined Fitness to Practise Rules 2017
This is an unsigned document which combines the existing Fitness to Practice Rules 2016 with the Fitness to Practice (Amendment) Rules 2017. This is for information and ease of use only; you should consult the original Rules in the event of any discrepancy or doubt. The full list of rules documents is on the rules page.
The SSSC Combined Registration Rules 2017
This is an unsigned document which combines the existing Registration Rules 2016 (No.2) with the Registration (Amendment) Rules 2017 and the Registration (Amendment No.2) Rules 2017. This is for information and ease of use only; you should consult the original Rules in the event of any discrepancy or doubt. The full list of rules documents is on the rules page.
The Decisions Guidance
The Decisions Guidance helps decision makers (SSSC staff and Panels) reach fair and proportionate decisions, ensures consistency and transparency and helps those going through the process to understand how decisions are made.
Here you can find out when and how to make a referral and the form to use if you are an employer, a higher education institution, a member of the public or a colleague.
Employer Referral Guidance
The Employer Referral Guidance helps employers to know what to refer to us and when, and guides them in completing the referral form.
Employer Referral Form
This is the form employers should use when referring a worker to us.
Higher Education Institutions Referral Guidance
The Higher Education Institutions Referral Guidance helps universities, colleges and training providers to know what to refer to us and when, and guides them in completing the referral form.
Higher Education Institutions Referral Form
This is the form universities, colleges and training providers should use when referring a student to us.
Member of the Public Making a Complaint about a worker guidance
The Member of the Public - Making a Complaint Guidance helps people who use services, carers and the general public to know what to refer to us and when, and guides them in completing the referral form.
Member of the Public Making a Complaint about a worker form
This is the form people who use services, carers and the general public should use when referring a worker to us.
Guidance for Raising a Concern about a Colleague
This guidance helps workers to know what to refer to us and when, and guides them in completing the referral form.
Colleague Raising a Concern Form
This is the form that workers should use when referring a colleague to us.
Our factsheets help workers to understand the fitness to practise process from investigation through to outcome. All the factsheets are in our publications library.
We are currently developing A Guide to the Hearings Process .
The Fitness to Practise Thresholds Policy sets out what referrals we will and will not consider.
We publish information about our hearings and decisions on our website. We may withhold health and other sensitive information.
The Public Information Policy sets out what information we publish, what we don’t and why.
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Revised Codeds of Practice came into effect on the 1st of November 2016. The Codes set out the standards of practice and behaviour expected of social services workers and their employers.
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