Scottish Social Services Council
04-08-09
Rumours are emerging that the SSSC have made, um, lets call it a cock up put down to human error.
PTRL doucuments relating to two social workers got mixed up and posted to the wrong worker i.e put one persons documents in an envelope addressed to the other. They each contain confidental (although anonymous) details of service users and others. Oooops!!
Now Wilt is less familiar with the SSSC and until I look a little more into their general performance I will not tar them with the same brush as the GSCC. If however it was a social worker who sent out confidental details to the wrong person, what might happen to them. I would suspect a conduct hearing cos the GSCC do like to add notches on the handle of their cosh. It makes them feel better! So what will happen to that SSSC officer, one wonders? Will they face discipline? Mmmmmm. We do know the GSCC have taken conduct action on poor record keeping on the part of some social workers already disciplined by their employer – why do they need to take further action? Notches, lots of them – that is the motive.
What would Wilt do? Well, it just goes to show that we are all human and can make mistakes. Proportionality is the key. Wilt would send the SSSC a letter stating that the error is logged, is concerned but hope that the SSSC would be equally be understanding and ask that all concerned learn from their mistakes. Oh, and that perhaps they will understand how sometimes pressure of work forces errors on occasions. Then he would hang on to that letter and produce it as evidence if he ever made a similar error and was faced with a conduct complaint!
Wilt