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The General Social Care Council has launched a three-month consultation on the rules for the registration and deregistration of social care workers.

The consultation will run until 9 September and the GSCC will be seeking views and advice from other professional workforce regulators, as well as key stakeholders and the social care sector during this period.

An estimated 1.2 million workers will have to register. The process will begin in 2003 with qualified social workers.

GSCC chairperson Rodney Brooke said: "Many people are amazed when they realise that there is currently no register of social care workers or a national mechanism for keeping unsuitable people out of the profession.

"It is especially important now, as the public begins to recognise what an important and difficult job social care workers do, and how much society relies on them to do it well," he added.