1. Protect the rights and promote the interests of service users and carers.
   
   
2. Strive to establish and maintain the trust and confidence of service users and carers.
   
   
3. Promote the independence of service users while protecting them as far as possible from danger or harm.
   
   
4. Respect the rights of service users while seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not harm themselves or other people.
   
   
5. Uphold public trust and confidence in social care services.
   
   
6. Be accountable for their practice and take responsibility for maintaining and improving their knowledge and skills. 

1. Make sure people are suitable to enter the workforce and understand their roles and responsibilities.
   
   
2.  Have written policies and procedures in place to enable social care workers to meet the General Social Care Council (GSCC) Code of Practice for social care workers.
   
   
3. Provide training and development opportunities to enable social care workers to strengthen and develop their skills and knowledge.
   
   
4. Put into place and implement written policies and procedures to deal with dangerous, discriminatory or exploitative behaviour and practice.
   
   
5. Promote the GSCC’s codes of practice to social care workers, service users and carers and co-operate with GSCC’s proceedings.
   
   

For further information and guidance, please refer to http://www.gscc.org.uk/Home