Committee Members

Northern Ireland Social Care Council

7th Floor Millennium House 19-25 Great Victoria Street Belfast BT2 7AQ

30 Nov 2006

Caroline Cumberland

caroline.cumberland@niscc.n-i.nhs.uk

028 9041 7600

The Northern Ireland Social Care Council is the social care workforce regulator for Northern Ireland.

We were established in 2001 and our role is to raise the quality of social care practice through workforce education and training, to put in place better safeguards to protect people using social care services and to increase public confidence in our workforce.

Registration of the social care workforce is a key aspect of this work.

Registration and conduct procedures are vital to protect the 175,000 people who use care services from unsuitable individuals, abuse or neglect. Only by taking action when it is required, can we hope to maintain a proud and professional social care workforce.

We are looking for two different groups of people to act as members of the Registration, Preliminary Proceedings, Conduct, or Restoration Committees in order to contribute to the regulation of registered social and social care workers. The different groups are:

1. lay members - members of the general public, including those who use services or are carers; and
2. social care members - registered social workers or social care workers.

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For an application pack, please send a large (A4) SAE to: Human Resources Directorate, Central Services Agency, 2 Franklin Street, Belfast, BT2 8DQ, or download a pack from www.niscc.info or email caroline.cumberland@niscc.n-i.nhs.uk.