About us

About us



The Care Council for Wales was established to promote high standards of conduct and practice among social care workers and high standards in their training.

Our aim
Our aim is to ensure children and adults who are receiving social care services should be able to rely on a workforce that is properly trained, appropriately qualified and effectively regulated.

The Care Council is a groundbreaking development for the social care sector – it is the first ever regulatory body for the social care profession in Wales. Through the Care Standards Act 2000 it has powers to set standards for people working in the sector in Wales, to register them against those standards for the first time ever, and also to remove them from the register for not adhering to those standards.

Our responsibilities
The Care Council is responsible for:

  • agreeing codes of practice which apply to social care workers and employers across the social care sector;

  • setting up a register of social care workers to improve public protection, making sure that registrants found unfit to work in the sector are prevented from working in the sector;

  • ascertaining training needs and promoting training across the social care sector;

  • regulating social work qualifying and post qualifying training.

  • regulating the Early Years and Childcare Workforce.

    Our statement of purpose and values
    The duty of the Care Council as set out in the Care Standards Act 2000 is to promote in relation to Wales:

  • high standards of conduct and practice among social care workers; and

  • high standards in their training.

    In pursuit of this, the Care Council will conduct its business based on the following principles and beliefs:

  • service users and carers are at the heart of the agenda;

  • quality services rely on competent staff;

  • regulation and registration, complemented by other investment in the development of the workforce, can raise standards;

  • social care is one sector, with one workforce;

  • people have different needs, wants and interests and these must be recognised and respected;

  • equality of opportunity must be supported and diversity valued;

  • the benefits of bilingualism will be actively promoted with the aim of assisting the Welsh Assembly Government to achieve its goal of making Wales a truly bilingual country.

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