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.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2010/07/conduct-round-up-social-worker-2.html