Three conduct cases have wrapped up at the General Social Care Council:
1. A senior residential support worker accused of using "unreasonable and inappropriate force" to remove a service user from his office was cleared of misconduct.
2. A social worker who was convicted of obtaining money by deception and falsely claiming Social Security benefits was admonished for five years. (Usually cases involving dishonesty invoke a harsher sanction, but in this case there were several mitigating factors)
3. Wendy Wilkinson, a team manager who "misused" money that was meant to pay for a service user's funeral expenses, was struck off.
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