GSCC Arrogant
27-08-09
This Hilton Dawson chap at BASW is looking more like what I thought BASW should represent – the profession. See his scathing attack on the GSCC here:
http://www.basw.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=105&articleID=987 and there is further coverage by community care, here:
Dawson is certainly doing a better job than the former Scottish CEO of BASW who infamously accused the GSCC of not applying the ‘cosh’ to enough social workers – utter Dork.
At this rate Wilt will have to consider rejoining BASW having earlier resigned in utter disgust at the incompetence of BASW, and that was before the Care Standards Tribunal commented that Lisa Arthurworrey owed her success to winning her right to be registered as a social worker not because of but in ‘spite of’ the BASW representation, which they criticised – that was pre-Dawson days.
Here are some snippets from the BASW press release:
“Our Advice and Representation Service tell me that cases which have been hanging over social workers for periods such as a year are now being brought summarily to hearings to consider the interim suspension of staff from the register.
In a recent example a 295 page ‘bundle’ was received by the A and R Service 3 working days before a hearing which clashed with prior commitments of the officer who was to undertake representation. Our request for a postponement of a few days was summarily refused and our request for a review of this decision was ignored.”
AND:
“Again in the past few weeks we have had a social worker appearing before an Interim Supervision Order hearing because of complaints about a Core Assessment where those bringing the case had not even read the document in question but had relied completely on the case provided by the complainant.
BASW staff succeeded in persuading GSCC not to suspend on this occasion but our efforts to have the whole case thrown out have been denied because procedures have recently been re-written to prevent the dismissal of cases before a full hearing.”
AND:
“However, the experience of our Advice and Representation Team is that the GSCC have a deal to learn from their counterparts about oppressive working practices.”
Yes, give it to them Dawson – Wilt loves ya!
BASW’s experience of the other 3 regulators (Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) is very different, citing proportionality, courtesy and fairness, albeit robust. That sounds about right on how Wilt has discovered from others. And it sounds like that is what it should be. Dawson accuses the GSCC of depriving social workers of their human rights and essentially tearing up the rule book when it comes to them abiding by the rules. Well, Hilton old chap, have you only just realised this? That has happened from day one.
The GSCC does not have a resource problem it has a basic competence problem, and a serious culture problem where they believe that social work careers are just cannon fodder in their desire to earn their right to an existence.
Wilt prefers a more succinct description of the GSCC – bastards of the first order.
Well done, Mr Dawson.
Wilt