PART 1SOCIAL CARE

CHAPTER 2MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS IN RELATION TO SOCIAL CARE SERVICES, SOCIAL CARE WORKERS AND LOCAL AUTHORITY SOCIAL CARE FUNCTIONS

Social care workers: registration and fitness to practise

18Meaning of social care worker: childcare workers

section 18 1 + (1)term social care worker + Subsection (2) amends the 2016 Act to add, to the list of persons that the Welsh Ministers can except or include in the definition of “social care worker” for the purposes of the Act, people who provide supervision to children (but may or may not provide care and support as part of their role).

section 18 2 + (2)In section 79 of the 2016 Act—

section 18 2 a + (a)in subsection (3)—

section 18 2 a i + (i)in paragraphs (e) and (f), for “care and support to any person in Wales”, substitute “—

(i)care and support;

(ii)childcare,

to any person in Wales”;

section 18 2 a ii + (ii)after paragraph (l) insert— “;

(m)a person employed to provide childcare by a person registered under Part 2 of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 1) as a provider of day care for children”;

section 18 2 b + (b)after subsection (3) insert—

“(3A)In subsection (3), “childcare means care and supervision that is provided for children.”