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Social worker struck off over repeated child protection failings
A social worker who ignored his managers’ instructions to carry out and record assessments of children at risk of abuse has been struck off.
23 April 2012
Social worker suspended over relationship with care leaver
A social worker who formed an inappropriately close, paternal relationship with a 17-year-old care leaver has been suspended from the register for six months.
11 April 2012
Social worker cautioned over racial abuse
A social worker who was convicted of racially abusing a member of the public has been admonished by the General Social Care Council (GSCC).
05 April 2012
Social worker struck off for benefit fraud
A social worker has been struck off after she was convicted for benefit fraud.
26 March 2012
Social worker struck off for £145k housing benefit fraud
A social worker who claimed over £145,000 in housing and council tax benefits she was not entitled to has been struck off the register in England.
03 April 2012
Social workers sanctioned for child protection mistakes
Two social workers have been sanctioned by the General Social Care Council (GSCC) for mistakes they made in a child protection case that saw a baby left with permanent brain damage.
21 March 2012
Social worker suspended for misleading employers
A social worker who mislead two London boroughs and an employment agency about being dismissed by a previous employer has been suspended for two years by a General Social Care Council panel.
13 March 2012
Review proposes fines for social workers found unfit to practise
A review into the laws governing health and social care regulation has proposed that ministers be able to give regulators the power to fine those found to be unfit to practise or make them pay the costs of their conduct hearings.
01 March 2012
Scrapping social work student register 'would endanger users'
Service users would be put at greater risk if the Health Professions Council does not continue the General Social Care Council’s register of social work students when it takes over as England’s social care regulator in August.
27 February 2012
Social worker struck off for assaulting women
A Suffolk social worker who assaulted two women has been removed from the social care register.
24 February 2012
Social worker suspended for forming relationship with user
A social worker has been suspended for two years for forming an inappropriate relationship with a vulnerable service user.
17 February 2012
Social worker suspended for not reporting underage sex case
A social worker has been suspended for not reporting a case of sexual activity between two children aged under 13, in breach of national child protection guidance.
09 February 2012
'Mystery tour' social worker struck off for sexual misconduct
A social worker who took a vulnerable service user on a "mystery tour" to a seaside town and made sexual advances towards her has been struck off.
02 December 2011
Care worker who gave child alcohol struck off
A residential child care worker who poured alcohol into a 15-year-old service user's soft drink and applied fake tan to another child's torso has been struck off for breaching professional boundaries.
23 November 2011
GSCC launches boundaries guidance for social workers
The General Social Care Council has launched guidance on professional boundaries for social workers in England. About a fifth of all cases referred to the regulator involve inappropriate relationships with service users (pictured), according to the GSCC's data.
21 November 2011
Sex text social worker struck off
A social worker who sent sexually explicit text messages to a client has been struck off the social care register.
18 November 2011
Social worker struck off after falsifying record
A social worker who misled his employer about a 2010 conduct hearing and obtained work using a false reference has been struck off the social care register.
07 November 2011
Woman who lied to gain £15k social work bursary admonished
A woman who lied about her immigration status in order to obtain a £15,000 student social work bursary has been allowed to remain on the register.
28 October 2011
Social worker struck off for theft from pensioner client's home
A social worker who stole jewellery and cash from an 83-year-old woman in his care has been struck off.
21 October 2011
Children's social worker made sexual comments to mothers
A children and families social worker who made inappropriate sexual comments to two mothers has been struck off.
18 October 2011
