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An adult moves in with an approved carer and shares their family life. Regulated by CQC rather than Ofsted, with no mandated qualification and no national training standard — unlike fostering.
Making Safeguarding Personal is not a statutory duty but a sector-led approach sitting inside the Care Act guidance. The six principles, the desired-outcomes discipline, and two honest limitations.
Two Band 4 clinical roles, one regulated and one not. What that means for scope of practice, which version of ST0215 applies, and why your job description is the document that matters.
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The seven Training, Support and Development Standards, the 12-month deadline, and the genuine disagreement between sources over whether kinship carers get 18 months.
PEPS was orphaned when the College of Social Work closed and is now maintained by BASW, not the regulator. What each stage permits, the three observations, and the currency rule that lapses your qualification.
The Level 4 is still approved for delivery but new starts stopped being government funded on 1 September 2026. What changes, what does not, and why the middle rung of the ladder matters.
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Over 66,000 people are registered with Social Care Wales. Managers must register before day one while workers get six months, and the widely quoted CPD hours figure is not on current guidance.
Anyone can call themselves a counsellor or psychotherapist in the UK. What the PSA accredited registers actually do, why arts therapists and practitioner psychologists are regulated and counsellors are not.
Arts therapist covers four protected titles across three disciplines. An 81.8% first-time acceptance rate, zero removals, and why cross-modality learning satisfies the mixture standard cleanly.
Prosthetists and orthotists produced the smallest audit cohort of any HCPC profession. Zero removals, and a specific problem with the mixture standard that comes with specialising narrowly.
Orthoptists had the highest deferral rate of any HCPC profession with published figures, at 23.3% of a 30-person cohort. What that does and does not tell you, and how to avoid needing one.
Practitioner psychologist covers nine protected titles and is the only HCPC profession with no published audit report, so there is no benchmark. What the standards require and the supervision trap.
At 89.5%, clinical scientists have the best first-time acceptance rate of any HCPC profession with published figures. The standards are identical everywhere, so the gap is about recording habits.
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