The General Social Care Council changed tack last week when it announced that it would recommend domiciliary care workers be amongst the next groups to join the social care register, writes Amy Taylor.

The GSCC will recommend to the government that outreach and domiciliary care workers, residential childcare workers and those working in residential family centres should be the next groups to be registered along with social care managers. 

The Council had planned to focus solely on social care managers in the second tranche of registration after qualified social workers and for the other groups to make up the following round.

The recommendation follows a consultation where 179 out of the 225 respondents backed the GSCC’s original proposal.

Despite this the GSCC said a “substantial number” of respondents argued that social care workers who pose the highest risk to service users should be made a higher priority in the order of registration leading to their change of plan.