The Verifera™ Encyclopaedia — Careers edition
NISCC
Verified reference for UK professional registers, credentials and career pathways. Every entry shows its sources and last-verified date — the “Verified by Verifera” mark appears only when all facts are in-window.
NISCC — the Northern Ireland Social Care Council
Northern Ireland's regulator for social workers under the Health and Personal Social Services Act (NI) 2001 — £65 annual fee (£435 first application for the internationally qualified, then £65), with a public-facing register at portal.niscc.org.
✔ Verified by VeriferaCredentialOverseas social worker → registration in England (SWE international route)
The SWE overseas route: qualification evidence and transcript, training/development evidence, course-provider verification contact, English language evidence — and a £670 non-refundable scrutiny fee. Wales and Northern Ireland run their own inbound assessments.
✔ Verified by VeriferaProfessionSocial worker — a four-nation protected title
Social work is safeguarding-critical and — unlike medicine or nursing — has no UK-wide register: "social worker" is a protected title in each UK nation under its own legislation, on its own register, with its own regulator.
✔ Verified by VeriferaGuideWhich UK social work register am I checked against? The four-register map
There is no UK-wide social work register — four statutory registers, no passporting between nations, and on three of them "on the register" does not mean "registered as a social worker". A correct UK-wide check fans out across all four plus the right disclosure regime.
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