Hot workforce topics for debate this week include whether taking on a second job without informing either employer constitutes misconduct.

It follows two recent, and in some ways very similar, conduct cases: Alice Tagoe and Doccus Nyabunze. Allan Norman, social worker and solicitor at Celtic Knot, an independent law firm and social work practice, argues on The Big Picture blog that neither case should have gone to a full conduct hearing.

In other news, people have been discussing on our forum CareSpace whether students should be registered after the Health Professions Council said it wasn't necessary to protect the public.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2010/08/debate-second-jobs-and-registr-1.html