General Social Care Council
Welcome to the General Social Care Council (GSCC), the regulator of the social care workforce in England.
We maintain the Social Care Register of social care workers, issue codes of practice for social care workers and their employers and regulate social work education and training.
On this site you will find information about social care and how it is regulated in England, key contacts at the GSCC and links to other relevant bodies. The site also contains our position on key developments in social care as set out in our briefings, consultations and speeches.
If want to find out more about us, please visit our website www.gscc.org.uk or go to People and Contacts
GSCC: key facts
- Established in 2001 under the Care Standards Act 2000
- Non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Health
- Set up to regulate the social care workforce in England
- Currently registers social workers and social work students and regulates their conduct and training
- Social Care Register opened in April 2003 and Protection of Title for social work introduced in April 2005, making registration for social workers compulsory
- Currently registers over 80,000 social workers and over 14,000 social work students
- Homecare workers will be the next group of the workforce to be registered, followed by residential care workers. We are expecting the Government to announce a date for the registration of homecare workers soon.
Latest Press Releases
- New General Social Care Council Chair announced
- Social workers ‘ideally fitted’ to making personalised services a reality, GSCC tells government
- Action taken to keep unsuitable people out of social work revealed in new GSCC report
- GSCC announces appointment of three new Council members
- Consultation announced on the regulation of personal assistants
- Social workers key to success of personalised care
- GSCC comments on guidance for workers on personalised care
- GSCC comments on new proposals aimed at developing social workers
- New checks for wider social care workforce will help drive up standards
- Is Post-Registration Training and Learning doing its job?
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