P ART 3 25 S TAFFING IN CARE SERVICES 6 Duty on care service providers to ensure appropriate staffing (1) Any person who provides a care service must ensure that at all times suitably qualified and competent individuals are working in the care service in such numbers as are appropriate for— 30 (a) the health, wellbeing and safety of service users, (b) the provision of safe and high-quality care, and (c) in so far as it affects either of those matters, the wellbeing of staff. (2) In determining what constitutes appropriate numbers for the purposes of subsection (1), regard is to be had to— 35 (a) the nature of the care service, (b) the size of the care service, (c) the aims and objectives of the care service, Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill 25 Part 3—Staffing in care services (d) the number of service users, and (e) the needs of service users. 7 Training of staff (1) Any person who provides a care service must ensure that individuals working in the care 5 service receive— (a) appropriate training for the work they are to perform, and (b) suitable assistance, including time off work, for the purpose of obtaining further qualifications appropriate to their work. (2) In subsection (1)(a), “appropriate training” includes training in how to use any method 10 for staffing required in regulations by the Scottish Ministers under section 82B(1) of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010. 7A Annual report on staffing in care services (1) As soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year, the Scottish Ministers must publish, and lay before the Scottish Parliament, a report setting out— 15 (a) a summary of how the duties imposed by sections 3, 6 and 7 on persons who provide, plan and secure care services are being discharged, (b) the effect that staffing levels in care services have on the discharge of those duties, (c) the steps that Ministers have taken to support staffing levels in care services in order to assist the discharge of those duties, 20 (d) how the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) will be taken into account in determining the future supply of— (i) registered nurses, (ii) medical practitioners, and (iii) such other kinds of care professionals as the Scottish Ministers consider 25 relevant to the discharge of the duties imposed by sections 3 and 6, and (e) the steps that Ministers have taken to ensure that funding is available to any person who provides a care service in order to assist the discharge of those duties. (2) In subsection (1), “staffing levels in care services” means the numbers of the following types of individuals working in care services— 30 (a) registered nurses, (b) medical practitioners, and (c) such other kinds of care professionals as the Scottish Ministers consider relevant to the discharge of the duties imposed by sections 3, 6 and 7. (3) In preparing a report under subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers must have regard to— 35 (a) any review carried out by SCSWIS under section 82BAA(1) of the Public Services (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2010, (b) any information from persons who provide care services on the use of staffing methods prescribed under section 82B of that Act, 26...