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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Professional conduct committees

69: Information to be given to social worker and complainant

You could also call this:

"Telling the social worker and complainant about the complaint or conviction"

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When a complaint is made about a social worker, or a social worker is convicted of something, it gets sent to a professional conduct committee. You need to know that the Board must tell the social worker about the complaint or conviction as soon as possible. The social worker will get written notice of what the complaint is about and who will be on the professional conduct committee to consider it.

If it is a complaint, the person who made the complaint will also get written notice of who will be on the professional conduct committee. The Board must make sure both the social worker and the complainant get this information.

The Board has to give the social worker and the complainant this information in writing, and it has to include the details of the complaint or conviction and the names of the people on the professional conduct committee that will look at it.

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Part 4Discipline
Professional conduct committees

69Information to be given to social worker and complainant

  1. As soon as is practicable after a complaint about, or a notice of conviction of, a social worker is referred to a professional conduct committee, the Board must ensure—

  2. that the social worker is given written notice of—
    1. the particulars of the complaint or notice of conviction; and
      1. the intended membership of the professional conduct committee that is to consider it; and
      2. in the case of a complaint, that the complainant is given written notice of the intended membership of the professional conduct committee that is to consider it.

        Notes
        • Section 69: amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
        • Section 69(a)(ii): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
        • Section 69(b): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).