By Daniel Lombard

To describe the vetting procedures employed by three councils in the Christopher Nwokoro case as amateurish would be an insult to amateurs everywhere. 

He joined them as an ultra-qualified, registered social worker with bags of experience. But what clinched it for this idealistic young people's champion was an unsolicited reference purporting to be from a former employer, describing him as an "easy-going fellow" with a "passion for children".

Slight problem - Nwokoro was neither registered, qualified, nor remotely competent, as Denbighshire council in Wales, Highland council in Scotland and Stockport council in north west England discovered to their cost.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2008/08/bungling-councils-hire-social.html