PART 6SOCIAL CARE WORKERS: FITNESS TO PRACTISE

CHAPTER 7GENERAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY

161Publication of fitness to practise decisions

1

SCW must publish a decision of a fitness to practise panel to make a consensual disposal of a matter under section 135 or 136.

2

SCW must publish a decision of a fitness to practise panel to dispose of a case under section 137 (disposal following a finding of no impairment of fitness to practise).

3

SCW must publish a decision of a fitness to practise panel to dispose of a case under section 138 (disposal following a finding of impaired fitness to practise).

4

SCW must publish a decision of a fitness to practise panel to dispose of a review cases in any of the ways mentioned in sections 152 to 155.

5

SCW must publish a decision of a fitness to practise panel to make an immediate order under section 140.

6

SCW must publish the following decisions of an interim orders panel or a fitness to practise panel—

a

a decision to make an interim order under section 144;

b

a decision to confirm or vary an interim order on a review under section 147.

7

SCW must publish any decision it makes—

a

to issue a warning under section 126(3)(c) (powers of SCW where case is not referred to a fitness to practise panel),

b

to agree undertakings under section 126(3)(d), or

c

to grant an application for removal from the register by agreement under section 126(3)(e).

8

Subsections (1) to (7) are subject to subsections (9) and (10).

9

SCW is not required to publish any decision of a fitness to practise panel to take no further action in respect of a registered person under section 137(2), 138(5), 152(8)(a), 153(9)(a), 154(8)(a) or 155(10)(a); but it may do so.

10

SCW must not publish any information about a person’s physical or mental health.