Part 2: Social workers etc in England Section 44: Discipline and Fitness to Practise
Subsection (1) requires the regulator to make arrangements for protecting the public from social workers in England whose fitness to practise is impaired and to make arrangements for taking other disciplinary action against social workers in England.
	Subsection (2) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations to require the regulator to make arrangement for taking disciplinary action against registered students. Subsection (3) enables the Secretary of State, by regulations, to make further provision about fitness to practise as a social worker in England, and discipline of social workers in England and registered students, and about the arrangements referred to at subsections (1) or (2).
	Subsections (4) provides a list of the matters that regulations, made by the Secretary of State under subsection (3), may address including, for example, the circumstances in which a person’s fitness to practise is impaired or disciplinary action may be taken; the appointment of assessors, examiners or legal or other advisers; and temporary measures that may be taken against a person pending the outcome of an investigation. Subsection (5) relates to the appointment of people to carry out functions in relation to fitness to practise or discipline and allows for provisions that may be made about persons appointed under the regulations to include provision about payments, staff, facilities or other assistance in respect of these people.