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The GSCC never fail to amaze Wilt – they are such fucking idiots. When Wilt was a senior manager he infrequently had among his responsibilities to process police checks on staff, foster carers, child minders etc., etc – this was pre the Criminal Records Bureau set-up.

Wilt saw some criminal records which sent shivers down his back and made his hair stand on end, whereas for the most part people either had no criminal records or had one or possibly several minor convictions, perhaps from some years previously and possibly at a young age or as a juvenile.

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It is possibly not a well known fact but something like one in three people in the UK have a criminal offence of some kind recorded against them. In addition there is ‘soft intelligence’ the police can disclose and do disclose regarding investigations against suspects who have been investigated (and usually also arrested) with other agencies – not sadly in the case of Soham.

Mrs Calleja might rejoice however that her arrest for suspected harassment will be subject to such ‘soft intelligence’ reporting. Oooooops! Anyway the fact of the arrest is permanently recorded here, and elsewhere on the web.

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Wilt would make an assessment of the relevance of the conviction and advise for the most part that a person (whether staff member or carer) was safe to engage in their applicable role.  There were on occasions when Wilt felt, ‘there but for the grace of God’ when he reflected on his own youthful antics.

Now Dhillon-Powell, a Birmingham social worker, may not be a spring chicken but did Miriam deserve to be admonished for five years?

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See the Community Care article here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/23/117064/gscc-admonishes-social-worker-over-15-tk-maxx-offence.htm

Wilt observes:

• What possible concern does this have for the GSCC; the issue was dealt with by her employer, the police etc.;
• Is an attempted theft of £15 so serious;
• Who gives a fuck;
• What have the GSCC learned about proportionality;

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Fucking unbelievable – if this woman does not appeal she needs a brain cell count.

Wilt is, well just flabbergasted – what is wrong with these fools at the GSCC? Any Court, and we mean any Court, in the land that took such a draconian approach would be laughable. NO Court would even go anywhere near that kind of disposal.

It simply reminds Wilt why Regulator Watch needs to exist – because there are utter fucking twats at the GSCC who know nothing about social work/social care or indeed about social justice and proportionality – this woman’s greatest sin was probably shopping at T.K. Maxx at all – not that Wilt would be seen dead in its store.

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Wilt’s heart sinks, it really does – will these fools at the GSCC never, ever lean?

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Yet again the GSCC have made a major fucking cock up and to add injury to insult (or vice versa) have imposed a inconceivably disproportionate sanction on a social worker registrant:  http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/13/117003/social-worker-guilty-of-misconduct-in-case-beset-by-delay.htm

It has taken the GSCC two years to conclude the case against Eric Rickerby who was initially suspended from the Register but then reinstated after an appeal to the Care Standards Tribunal who ordered his reinstatement: http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View.aspx?ID=1088

That was in July 2010 – nearly 12 months later they finally conclude the case. They blame the delay on administrative shortages but they accept there were unacceptable shortcomings and have learned lessons to ensure there are improved services to registrants – now where has Wilt heard that before?

Having effectively deprived the guy of work for two years, and a loss of an estimated £90,000 in salary they add insult to injury by admonishing him for 4 years.

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One can only assume that Rickerby will also appeal that judgement on the grounds that the decision was both perverse and utterly disproportionate.

Will these fuckers at the GSCC never learn? If Rickerby had not had to defend himself any reasonable lawyer would have torn the GSCC apart and shamed them into thinking that the guy had already served time. Effectively the fella will effectively serve 6 years – that is longer than some rapists serve!

What utter fucking bollocks.

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What a pillock: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/05/31/116914/Children39s-worker-suspended-after-staring-at-girl39s.htm

(not the chap in this photo)

Tit watching is OK if it is of the feathered kind, or indeed admiring the female figure provided it is not oppressive – staring at a service users breasts (especially one aged 16) is out of order.

Mind you, this was a GSCC hearing, so you just never really know the full truth.

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It has obviously been a day of sex stories: http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2011/05/not-very-joined-up/ as reported earlier by Wilt.

There is a further article here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392731/Police-officer-sacked-inappropriate-relationship-girl-14-met-custody.html but this time with a picture of the culprit.

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Oh dear, here we go again – the GSCC have fucked up again: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/05/31/116909/Banned-social-worker-can-rejoin-register-after-appeal.htm

It cannot be any fun working at the GSCC – however it is worse if you happen to be investigated by them, as the above article yet again illustrates. And to quote:

Tribunal judge Maureen Roberts said: “On the balance of probabilities we find that the applicant did make lewd and improper suggestions to young women in Argyle Street, Birkenhead, in the early hours of 10 April 2008.”

But she added: “In all the circumstances of this case we conclude that the sanction applied was too severe.

“The applicant is a mature man who has been working as a social worker since 1995 with no previous concerns about his professional work.”

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It goes on:

She also criticised the GSCC’s handling of the case as “less than fair”. Ten months after he was referred to the GSCC, the social worker was informed that no further action would be taken. Six months after that, the GSCC told him it was reopening the case.

Roberts concluded: “In view of the overall length of time that the applicant has had this matter hanging over him and the sanction of an interim suspension order and then removal dating back to January 2010, we are allowing the appeal.”

It never rains put pours on those nice stupid folk at the GSCC – fucking Dorks.

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It is somewhat ironic that on the very day that CEOPS (the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre) http://www.ceop.police.uk/ announce a record level of ‘saving’ children http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13594329 from sexual exploitation that it is reported that a police officer sexually exploited a 14 year old looked after child – or at least he attempted to: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392731/Police-officer-sacked-inappropriate-relationship-girl-14-met-custody.html

It is further reported here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13603101

“Pc Robert Nicholson met the girl in October 2009 while she was in custody and exchanged text and Facebook messages which had “sexual elements”.

He then met the girl when he took her out of her care home in east London.

The constable, who was 27 at the time, faced a trial for sexual activity with a child but was found not guilty.”

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Well, call me a little simple minded, but me thinks this was sexual exploitation. Do not the CEOP people and the Met people talk to each other?

Is it just me that links these two news reports?

Perhaps CEOP need to look closer to home for offenders?

Not very joined up, we think.

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OK, what is wrong with this picture: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8521245/Man-tries-to-take-pony-on-train.html?

This goes a little further than taking your bike or Salty Dog on the train. What was the man thinking of? What an utter Dork.

Beam me up Scotty.

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(From his hotel room in XXXXXXX)

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It is not just the GSCC who are incompetent, yet again its Welsh sister the Care Council for Wales (CCW) http://www.ccwales.org.uk/ have fucked-up big time.

See here the Community Care article: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/04/27/116732/welsh-regulator-under-fire-over-handling-of-conduct-case.htm

And here the original judgement on the new First Tier Care Standards Tribunal website: http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/courts-and-tribunals/tribunals/care-standards/index.htm

The specific judgement is here:  http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View.aspx?ID=1147

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Albeit Borley lost her appeal she won the moral ground in terms of the immoral acts of the CCW. The ultimate effect being akin to the CCW of committing defamation of character, and contempt for the Care Standards Tribunal – fucking Dorks.

When will these twats learn?

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It seems social care workers are not fond of trade union membership, according to this community care report: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/04/28/116735/alarm-over-lack-of-union-membership-among-care-workers.htm

Is that so bad?

We will see.

Meanwhile Cafcass might be on the move http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/04/26/116724/ministers-likely-to-accept-cafcass-move-to-justice-ministry.htm

It would be far preferable that it simply disappear.

And Wilt’s favourite quango, the GSCC, has won a three month reprieve:  http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/04/27/116733/delayed-end-to-gscc-may-cause-confusion-over-registration.htm

This website will not desist in monitoring its (GSCC http://www.gscc.org.uk/Home/) progress to ultimate demise and persist in monitoring the emergence of the new Health and Care Professions Council (HPC as they are now http://www.hpc-uk.org/).

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Oh look what we have rediscovered: http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/3061606/after-baby-p-the-crisis-in-child-foster-care.thtml

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This article in the Spectator in 2008 reads like a fairy tale, of wonder woman ‘Sarah’ (Elizabeth Calleja) in her battle against injustice! Absolute and utter tosh.

As usual, Calleja only tells half truths and slips in a few untruths – she is dissembling like a good politician.

You will of course note that the Spectator Assistant Editor (Mary Wakefield) did not trouble herself in checking out the story before going to print. What did Tom, Dick and Harriet have to say; or Madge for that matter? What were the views of the police, NCSC/CSCI or Ofsted? Could they offer a more balanced appraisal? The answer is of course yes, but it was inconvenient to do so – otherwise there was no story, or fairy tale. An inconvenient truth might emerge.

Now, you would expect that a publication such as the Spectator would publish evidenced research – would you not? They neither do justice to the case of Calleja (not that she has one), to those accused of serious professional misconduct or to journalism.

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What of course is fact is that Calleja considers herself to be and promulgates the idea that she is an innocent victim. She is neither innocent nor a victim, but the inconvenient truth is that she victimises others – has anyone else been arrested by the police and placed on bail for several months under suspicion of harassment? Now that is a very inconvenient and arresting fact, is it not? See this: http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2011/03/infamy-infamy/

Oh, and that big black file that Calleja/Wakefield have – we know of a police officer who would like to see it, together with the High Court in Birmingham who were told by Calleja that she held no records that could be disclosed in a defamation claim. Unlike Calleja who routinely claims to be a lawyer herself, we are not lawyers but we think that, in light of that big black folder, it might emerge yet that Elizabeth committed perjury in her signed Court statement (and not the draft version she sent to the GSCC). And such offences tend to carry fairly heavy prison terms, do they not Lord Archer? See here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1424501.stm

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Callejia will, putting it mildly, create fictional documents, although not in any way that the police cannot instantly detect.

It is also very odd that a woman who the Spectator (and other publishers) choose to award anonymity to, is probably the best known litigant/vexatious pain in the arse known to central/local government and a multitude of Quango. For gawd sake, we all know who she is and why try to protect her? The public have a right to know which Dorks cause massive deployment of publicly funded resources in examining ‘non-essential’ and irrelevant issues – for goodness sake Calleja is irrelevant, her cause even less so. Even so, she spares no blushes when it comes to naming and shaming others from her ‘Big Black File’ ( and several more like it we are adsvised) – that is why we have no reservation about naming the TWAT.

In UK law, you face your accuser – face up Elizabeth or desist from your pathetic, stale and sorry efforts to be the Fairy Queen – no glass slipper would fit your fat foot, honest. An inconvenient fact, we think, princess.

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If readers wish to further identify Calleja go here for a PUBLIC record: http://www.192.com/atoz/people/calleja/elizabeth/

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Ah Rosalind Shaw – we remember her. She was an early casualty of the disgraceful GSCC and their inept, innately unfair procedures and utter lack of compassion. In other words utter fucking Dorks.

Wilt reported on this case some time ago. See here: http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2010/03/more-fireworks/

And here: http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2009/10/dorks-with-bells-on/

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This was 2009 – Rosalind was at/beyond retirement age but the GSCC decided, in its perverse wisdom, to remove her name from the Register of Social Workers. Wilt cannot say whether Rosalind perhaps should have bowed out sooner due to her age, more modern approaches to the work, and the undeniable effects of the profession upon any social worker, but it was clear that the woman was poorly treated. In fact undeniably badly treated and shat upon from a great height.  What a way to end a long career – go you awful woman, irrespective of your long years of service and rot in hell, was the effect of the GSCC despatch.

Well, the GSCC had not then (in fact they never have) got to grips with a very basic concept called justice, or even human rights or indeed common sense, compassion or that useful tool called intellectual ability.

The Care Standards Tribunal (see above links) ordered a rehearing of Rosalind’s case; see here the recent Community Care article: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/03/30/116578/struck-off-social-worker-let-back-on-to-register.htm not least because she was in the days/weeks/months in the run up to her original GSCC hearing (2009) almost fully occupied in the care of her dying parent, then suffered the inevitable bereavement and then all the chores thereafter in the respectful “sending off” of the loved one.

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Obviously the GSCC thought that “sending off” involved some kind of referee Red Card – they certainly gave Rosalind the Red Card for failing (despite her request to defer the case)  in what must in the history of GSCC decisions been the most bizarre.

What exactly was this unemployed (of retirement age) social worker who had suffered a close family bereavement going to do to create such harm to the unsuspecting public? God knows, but the GSCC decided to add insult to injury by demonising her as utterly incompetent – to what end exactly? Of all the cases (and they number in the dozens) where the GSCC have been shown to be utterly incompetent, the case of Rosalind Shaw takes the biscuit. The GSCC were quite frankly cruel, let alone the technical facts of being incompetent and unfair. They relished in making this woman’s life hell – they enjoyed it, the bastards.

I reiterate, this was 2009 – the Care Standards Tribunal ordered a rehearing. It is now 2011, some two years later (I only state that as the GSCC twats do not understand arithmetic) and yes we have a result. The GSCC decided in their ultimate wisdom to replace the removal from the Register with a one year admonishment. Wilt needs to allow this to sink in – a one year admonishment!

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What the fuck is wrong with these people – are they total twats and idiots? Answers please on a postcard.

Look…. Rosalind is a nice old lady (sorry Rosalind for the ‘old’ reference) and is rather harmless – she never (even the GSCC agree) had any proper supervision or support, and yes she may have not been at her best; was it really necessary to admonish her after two years post the claimed failings? All we now need is a further complaint to the Care Standards Tribunal, and Rosalind would have a perfectly reasonable case.

What is utterly laudable out of this very sad case matter is that the GSCC (from the Community Care article) stated:

A spokesperson for the GSCC said: “In this and all cases we take the decisions of the First-tier Tribunal seriously, learn from them and use the recommendations to improve our processes.

“We firmly believe that the engagement of the registrant in the conduct process is important for ensuring the fairest outcomes, and it is something that we try to encourage.”

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Now that is taking the piss – the GSCC never learn. More to the point, as illustrated in this case, they do not give a fuck either.

This is why Regulator Watch exists – the cool and dispassionate reporting of Community Care, the obvious duplicity, incompetence and facile approach of the GSCC requires a Regulator of the Regulator.

Community Care needs to get a grip and start being passionate – they fail in their rather grey and anaemic coverage of core social care issues; be acerbic and challenging. You are either with social workers, especially now, or you aint. It is that simple.

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