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The Scottish Retail Consortium was also in favour of a voluntary code. However, the voluntary code approach has now been abandoned, because the European Commission has said that it is not possible.
The 2001 act makes it clear that any employer must take the codes of practice into account when they deal with a conduct issue regarding a social services worker.
I think that that illustrates how important it is for the UK Government's code of practice to ensure that we do not recruit specialists from sub-Saharan Africa.
I appeal to the Presiding Officer to ensure that the statutory instrument that will introduce the code of practice is given the time and attention in Parliament that it needs.