Legislation – Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025
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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
(1)
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).
(2)
In section 79 of the 2016 Act—
(a)
in subsection (3)—
(i)
“—
(i)
care and support;
(ii)
childcare,
to any person in Wales”;
(ii)
“;
(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”;
(b)
“(3A)
In subsection (3), “childcare means care and supervision that is provided for children.”