Part 1: Main Provisions Section 6 and Schedule 5: Emergency registration of social workers: England and Wales
The Section and Schedule modify the Social Workers Regulations 2018 and the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016, allowing for the temporary registration of social workers in England and Wales. Social Work England (the "regulator") and the registrar for Social Care Wales (the "registrar") have the power to register a person or specified group of persons, as a social worker.
	As with the emergency registration of healthcare professionals, the regulator or registrar must be satisfied that the emergency registration requirement is met, i.e. that the person or persons are "fit, proper and suitably experienced to be registered" with regard to the emergency. It is at the discretion of the regulator or registrar to determine who to register on a temporary basis. Conditions of practice may be imposed, and the regulator or registrar may revoke the registration at any time, including where they suspect that the person’s fitness to practise may be impaired. The regulator or registrar must revoke the registration if the Secretary of State advises the regulator or registrar that the circumstances leading to a notification of an emergency no longer exist.
	Certain provisions of the Social Workers Regulations 2018 and the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 are disapplied with regard to the conditions of registration of social workers. These disapplied provisions relate to the standard registration, education and training, and fitness to practise of social workers.
	The territorial extent and application of this section and Schedule is England and Wales only.