The General Social Care Council's conduct cases seem to have focused quite a lot on sexual misdemeanours by practitioners or dishonest (for instance in relation to past criminal convictions) rather than poor practice.
A case next week seems (on the basis of the press release) to be bucking this trend: the practitioner (who may well be innocent of all charges of course) is accused of not initiating a child protection inquiry, failing to arrange a place of safety for three children after one disclosed they had been physically abused by her father, and failing to record case details properly or at all.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this case, it raises the question of what the conduct system is for? Do we want to be seeing poor practice exposed and poor practitioners suspended or banned (or at least cautioned); or should it be reserved for people whose ethical boundaries are clearly out of whack?