A General Social Care Council conduct committee has struck off a Cornwall social work student for failing to declare previous criminal convictions for financial dishonesty.
During a three-day hearing, the committee heard that Allan Beard had failed to declare convictions for fraud, false accounting and gaining financial advantage by deception to the GSCC, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and the University of Plymouth.
He also failed to disclose that he had been imprisoned, and that his previous legal career ended when he was struck off the Roll of Solicitors for misappropriating client money.
The committee found that Beard had been "dishonest and deceptive" and had provided "woefully inaccurate information" in his application to join the GSCC register.
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