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It was with some mirth that Wilt read the article by Penny Thompson (CEO GSCC) describing the ‘strong legacy’ the GSCC will leave after it disappears off into the setting sun – one pictures Thompson with her cowboy hat, leather boots and twin holstered six shooters astride her moped with ‘L’ plates affixed. See her article here: http://www.gscc.org.uk/blog.php?id=3

Does she think Wilt and others are stupid, or what? The only legacy the GSCC will leave is a period in social care regulation that most people want to forget; they have been an utter disgrace, totally incompetent and thoroughly corrupt in terms of their procedures and policies. They are the end of an era error – indeed they will not be missed, at all, other than possibly Wilt will no longer be able to poke fun at them.

Of course, we have yet to see how the Health Professions Council (HPC) will fair under its new regime. Regulator Watch may yet not become redundant, albeit one of its core aims has been to hold twats like the GSCC to account. And on that score we think Regulator Watch has done rather well – we have our readers from within parliament and various government agencies, the press, the GSCC themselves and others such as the College of Social Work and the Social Care Institute for Excellence; these people do take note of the root and branch analysis of the likes of the GSCC.

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However, the most critical and critically effective mitigating factor that curtails the GSCC abuses of power and the application of justice has been down to the Care Standards Tribunal. In a yet further ground breaking judgement they have added another nail in the coffin of the GSCC, this time to the tune of £3700.00 in compensating Jaswinder Bains for his legal expenses after the Tribunal found the GSCC case against the Registrant (a Children’s Guardian) as ‘fundamentally flawed.’

See the Community Care article here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/03/23/116522/gscc-payout-to-social-worker-over-registration-howler.htm

Wilt had reported on this case some months ago but this latest development just simply confirms that the Care Standards Tribunal have had enough of this wayward GSCC – unfortunately it is not possible to put them on a curfew or slap on them a Anti-Social Behaviour Order (or whatever they are called these days). Suing the bastards is however the next best thing, except of course it comes out of the public purse! However, Bains is compensated and that is what counts, albeit the emotional costs and the damage to his good name are costs not compensated, yet.

Goodbye GSCC.

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Your efforts to post messages on this website are in vain, including twats trying to advertise Travel Deals and Replica Pens or promote smutty porn sites and the like. Dorks.

Do yourselves a favour and find something constructive to do.

Oh and do not try pingbacks – they will be denied too. And all you nice smammers who try to woo Wilt into thinking you are a fan of the website – you are wasting your time, especially with your incompetent English. Idiots.

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It is not often that Wilt needs to hid his head, on purpose, on his desktop but this article did the trick: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/02/23/116326/basw-to-ditch-name-and-seek-unity-with-social-work-college.htm

Perhaps there has been a coup d’état at BASW or as Wilt has suspected Hilton Dawson is a sandwich short of a picnic! A noteworthy cool response however from the official college, or as they insist The College, in the Community Care article.

Now I have a headache! It must be pub time.

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Fucking unbelievable – what is wrong with these people? See the BBC article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12555903

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And the Guido article here: http://order-order.com/2011/02/23/chaytor-launches-appeal/

These people should remember how angry the public were and still are about the MP expenses saga. They are total twats.

And then there is Jim Devine made a bankrupt http://order-order.com/2011/02/23/devine-retribution-ii/

He is still to be sentenced after he has been found guilty of fraud, along with Lord Taylor of Warwick – it’s strange how so many frauds hail from that part of the world!

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Again Tim Loughton (Children’s Minister) is giving the Courts and adoption agencies a ‘heads up’ that they need to get their act together. Key to his concerns are:

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“I think the courts are too process-driven. There are some cases where very clearly there is no way back to a child’s birth parents and the child is a strong candidate for adoption. Do we need to go through quite as many processes for that child as for another where it is not such a clear cut decision? I think we can use a more proportionate approach in many cases.”

Loughton gives his views in a claimed exclusive interview withy Community Care here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/02/23/116332/minister-wants-ombudsman-for-contentious-adoptions.htm

He adds:

“Whenever I speak to adoption services and adoption panels they say their job is being made harder because of court processes and delays: in getting the hearing; in the fact that judges are always asking for that extra expert witness statement and so forth.

“Then I speak to judges and they say adoption panels are taking so long to process paperwork, hold meetings and bring cases back to court. There just seems to be a huge disconnect at the moment.”

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All this is of course with a backdrop to issues of concern over trans-racial placements, or the lack of, due to political correctness among social workers, as reported in the Telegraph:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/8340410/Adoption-shake-up-new-guidelines-will-stop-social-engineering.html

And here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/8340280/Adoption-shake-up-the-five-key-points.html

Although it is claimed these are new issues, they are in fact very old, well ingrained and stale issues – there is absolutely nothing new in these assertions by Michael Gove, but he is right to reinforce earlier policy which negates the damaging and irresponsible attitudes of some social workers to hold onto a false and misleading concept of integration of children into families who must (at all costs) reflect a child’s ethnicity.

However, if he feels adoption services are better or at least equally delivered by Voluntary Adoption Agencies (VAA’s) then he must have second and third thoughts, we think.

In this article Community Care report: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/02/22/116318/government-urges-more-use-of-voluntary-adoption-agencies.htm that the Government urges more use of VAA’s. Do Gove and Loughton really think that will improve matters – some of the worst offenders of political correctness occupy posts in the voluntary sector.

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And to add injury to insult, voluntary agencies (REMEMBER THE WORD VOLUNTARY) charge such massive fees as set out by BAAF (British Association for Adoption & Fostering) http://www.baaf.org.uk/ to the tune of £20,640 + £3,440 to cover a package of post-adoption services for each child placed. That is £24K per child, and more if it involves London based agencies. See the BAAF list of charges here: http://www.baaf.org.uk/webfm_send/2108

A VOLUNTARY ADOPTION AGENCY charging fees to a local authority? Is Wilt confused or do these people obtain grants and pay executives massive salaries, or what? These are not voluntary agencies but a private business masquerading as voluntary agencies – they have a mantra, as described by BAAF themselves as “Every Child Deserves a Family.”

Mmmmmmm, yes at a cost and profit to the voluntary agencies.

Not infrequently Wilt undertakes kinship or otherwise general assessments of prospective adopters and foster carers, at a fraction of the cost, normally within the region of £3500 – £4000.00.  How is then possible for voluntary agencies need to charge £24K?

So Mssrs Gove and Loughton – think on mates. Costs and political correctness? Who do you think runs the national adoption register? Well, it is of course BAAF who also set the national inter-agency fees for inter-agency placements.

Is there a conflict of interest here?

In Big Society Terms there needs to be a root and branch review of what is the distinction between so called VOLUNTARY agencies and effectively private business – and not just their tax breaks.

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OK – the Big Society. A subject which Wilt has watched from afar as an intellectual observer – yes Wilt has a brain and has a brain scan on disc to prove it. Needless to say the brain scan disc is of a larger than normal size

Well, perhaps not – a few years ago on a Masonic outing abroad with a dozen other blokes he experienced not one but in fact two “unexplained” seizures in one day resulting in him collapsing to the floor unconscious, one time in full formal black bow tie attire.  The nice hospital people took blood tests, a full brain scan and heart monitoring – on the plus side he had neither experienced a heart attack, stroke and nothing in the toxicology tests indicated causation. Urban myth (even today) suggests Wilt was over energetic in his celebrations with drinking brothers of the lodge. In actual fact, it was most likely simple exhaustion and lack of sleep – ok that foreign beer may not have helped.

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Less positive was the potentially 12 month ban from driving (automatic if one has a seizure) – it is compulsory to notify the DVLA if you suffer a seizure, although many do not out of either ignorance or simple deceit. Wilt took the option to notify, on advice from the medics, and six months later (not the full potential 12 months) was back on the road driving again. If you play fair with the likes of the DVLA, they will deal you a fair hand.

However, I digress – back to Big Society. However do I digress? Being responsible and taking responsibility is in fact a part of the commitment that citizens have to their community. Let us imagine that Wilt did not follow medical advice and not notify the DVLA, and then went on to drive and collapse at the wheel only to kill or severely injure some other motorist or pedestrian. Would that have been reasonable? No, of course not – sacrificing his car usage was not easy but Wilt did it, out of a sense of duty and responsibility. Business suffered as a consequence and public transport, whilst reasonable, took up an inordinate amount of time – if you do not believe me, try it yourself. For Gawd sake I had to walk to the pub (as distinct from just walking back from the pub with Salty Dog guiding me).

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David Cameron, on the Big Society subject, obviously overlooked this simple example of selfless commitment – we however forgive him, as the example given is just a facile example of a much larger picture of the State and its duties to its citizens.

Earlier this month Guido gave, I think, the best reminder of what Thatcher (no such thing as society) actually meant in this article: http://order-order.com/2011/02/08/big-society-v-big-government/

He quotes the lady:

“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour.”

The interlocker concept between the Big Society and No Society is not lost on either Guido or Cameron, nor indeed Wilt after having researched what the hell the concept means – there is no doubt the launch of this Big Society idea was a major missed opportunity.

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In addition to Big Society and No Society add the following: Social Exclusion. That latter term was (and remains) a thoroughbred concept of New Labour – it is in fact not that different from Big Society as each in their different ways conceptualise that from citizenship emanates a commitment to local community, the nation and to Society.

On the whole ‘communities’ look after their own. Countless thousands of unpaid and committed volunteers toil daily, and not just Monday to Friday office hours, to ensure that the community they serve and gain benefit from survives. They would shy away from the limelight and simply see it as a duty and repayment of the benefits they gain in knowing their family and neighbours are well and valued. It is simple, really it is, honest.

Albeit Wilt lives out in the ‘sticks’ he regularly delivers the newspaper, a few groceries  and has a chat with others in the local community, he sees this as rather normal and, well, what he hopes others might just do for him in the future – you give as might care to be given to.

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What then of the voluntary agencies, such as the NSPCC? What exactly do they do? In the case of the NSPCC, very little, we think. They have very highly paid executives on mind boggling salaries. The worst of it however is this – they rely upon Government subsidies in the form of grants and fees to survive.

It seems to Wilt an odd position where a voluntary agency, any voluntary agency, requires a grant or subsidy or fee to continue work. It is an anathema and utterly curious notion that a VOLUNTARY agency can only survive as such – surely, in Big Society terms, an agency providing voluntary services will succeed or not on its merits to the community – they are either valued or not and effective or not, or they simply become an agent of Government like some other Quango or private contractor.

What is the difference between a private contractor and a voluntary agency, both of whom are paid to fulfil a contract? One major difference is that a business pays tax and a voluntary agency does not – voluntary agencies have huge tax concessions and do not pay VAT.

And what do the NSPCC achieve – you tell me? Is this a level playing field?

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Dear reader, look upon the NSPCC and it’s like simply as a business by another set of rules.

The Big Society must not become the Big rip off – the community can run their own affairs very well, thank you, without overpaid local government executives, over-estimated and fraudulent voluntary agencies with equally overpaid executives.

If the community needs a local ‘non-job’ officer, Wilt can find several prospective volunteers down at the pub – they might regret it after the hangover has worn off!

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Well the cuts, they are coming thick and fast. Not nice for those facing redundancy – or is it?

Throughout my local government career I was faced daily with staff who took the piss with sick leave entitlements and others (if not off sick) who only dreamt of early retirement. Wilt suspects that things are not that different today.

Whilst trade union leaders on six figure number salaries protest and the Labour Council Leader in Manchester has a similar high salary (i.e. £260,000) protest at cuts whilst not cutting their own salaries, they remain ineffective and unconvincing. How do they get these kinds of salaries anyway?

A Council Leader and Trade Unionists on six figure salaries – something has gone wrong somewhere. Thank gawd Wilt is not a trade union member any more, cos he just otherwise he might need to commit a serious verbal assault on his leadership.

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Neither should a trade union leader or councillor receive more than the average wage, and CEO’s of any public body more than the Prime Minister.

Bring it on, Wilt wants his tax bills lowered – please.

It cannot be so bad, see this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355358/Quango-paid-2m-redundancy-workers-refused-sent-Coventry.html

OK Coventry is a bit of a shithole but if it came to it, albeit grudgingly, Wilt would move to work there if it meant having a job, rather than not having a job. But then some people just like to take the piss, as here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359267/Hazel-Cunningham-Facebook-unveils-benefits-cheat-bride.html Hazel Cunningham will now be at Her Majesty’s pleasure and not be flying off to Turkey on holiday or Barbados for a wedding at public expense.

Then we have Sarah Messenger of Local Government Employers (LGE) http://www.lge.gov.uk/lge/core/page.do?pageId=1 stating in this Community Care article:

Those working at the highest level in social services perform a hugely important job and have to make decisions which affect the well-being and happiness of thousands of people. Councils need to be given the flexibility to attract and keep these specialists whose expertise plays a vital role in the care and protection of society’s most vulnerable individuals.”

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Obviously, despite her name, Sarah has not got the message – where exactly are these highly valuable people going to go to? Yes, the private sector as she states in a way that this is a bad thing. What Messenger fails to grasp is that is exactly what should happen, in order to reduce the tax burden to us hard working people.

See the Community Care article here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/02/22/116319/attack-on-pay-sparks-fears-of-social-work-brain-drain.htm

I just love that picture of Eric Pickles – Wilt’s hero. Carry on, Eric – sort the twats out.

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This is a long article – but read on, as it is worthwhile we humbly submit. Above all it gives a two finger salute to those who attempt to curtail freedom of speech.

It has been a little while since we turned our attention to the subject of Calleja, that Elizabeth of Leamington Spa. After her arrest last year for suspected harassment Wilt et al reflected on her character.

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She remains a regular visitor to Regulator Watch via her T-Mobile Android driven and Safari web browser on the tiny screen of her mobile phone – she appears to believe her activity by such media is undetectable or not permanently recorded both on her device and by the Regulator Watch “sniffer” programme to monitor access to the website. No such luck Elizabeth – your every click is recorded, by us and T-Mobile.

Whereas Elizabeth was not ultimately charged with any offence and released from bail, the arrest, we think, had a definite impact on her activity – Wilt has received reports that (due to bail conditions) she did not access the websites of those companies who brought the police complaint against her, for the full period of her three month bail. She has on a couple of occasion’s accessed one company (complainant) website post release from bail.

Probably for the second time ever, Calleja was on the back foot – it was she who was under scrutiny and despite her efforts to achieve the same it was not those who she complained about but in fact her who was arrested. The police were in fact rather annoyed that this “crying wolf” Calleja was an utter menace and distraction from the real and vital crimes that police forces try to address daily. This is not a dissimilar position adopted by the former CSCI (Commission for Social Care Inspection) who, were to their credit, the first to take on the task of dismantling the Calleja/Plaskitt mythology of “victimisation.”

Plaskitt is the former Labour MP for Warwick & Leamington Spa. You can find details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Plaskitt or upcoming http://www.jamesplaskitt.com/ – the latter is reserved and we can only assume the twat has something in mind. Perhaps photographs of dunes!?

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Police “forces” is used in the plural because it was not just West Mercia Police but also several other police forces that were in receipt of complaints – Calleja will and has made multiple complaints on the same “stale” issues to numerous agencies.

The list of agencies Calleja has complained to is far too numerous to mention (they run into the dozens) in her near 11 year campaign to, what she/Plaskitt term as an effort to clear her name, to attack the character of others – the classic “attack is the best defence” approach which she and idiot Plaskitt (now ex-MP) undertook in a rather underhand way.

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Quite a number of agencies were initially taken in by this nun with a switchblade and took up her cause in the mistaken belief that Calleja, aided and abetted by former MP Plaskitt, was a victim of the big bad system. These were her high points. Some of it was captured in the CSCI Internal Review Report here: http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2009/11/csci-internal-review-report/ and thereafter her demise was assured. Well done CSCI.

Come the general election in 2010 (when Plaskitt lost his Parliamentary seat) Calleja was on her own, most agencies had realised she was simply “vexatious“(including even the GSCC) and her reputation with the said dozens of agencies was in disarray.

After her arrest in 2010 she focused her switchblade, very nun like, on Regulator Watch which has, among other matters, reported the alternative and more truthful story of Calleja – she had begun the process by reporting her (false) woes to the press herself, aided and abetted by former MP Plaskitt in both the House of Commons and the press. She made herself public, her cause public and seriously discredited others very publicly – is it therefore a surprise that others defend themselves publicly via Regulator Watch?

Plaskitt it appears, as some describe him, been a “poodle” or “lap dog” of the woman, forever doing her bidding.  Calleja, otherwise known as Mrs Fax (given the volumes of data sent by fax to numerous bodies), became more and more isolated and considered by many agencies as suffering some kind of illness.

Why otherwise would she harass so many over so many years? Munchausen’s Syndrome was once proposed and remains a significant contender but Wilt et al have another theory, too.

The demise of Plaskitt (who lost his Parliamentary seat) was a significant loss to Calleja – the “poodle” no longer had a voice, safe within the protected confines of the lower House. He also needed to take a low profile due to his dodgy MP’s expenses, especially his £400 per month (no questions asked) food bill, among other claims on expenses. If only Wilt (and most of the world) had £400 per month for food, without receipts – world hunger would be solved, surely?

There is a considerable body of belief that Calleja “is just simply evil” – she was fully aware of the damage she did to the reputations of others and the distress that caused, but that explanation does not exclude the impressions of others who state that “Munchausen’s Syndrome” or indeed simple “Narcissism” also play a part in the makeup of this complex woman – this is the consequence of having psychiatrists, psychologists and religious people on the board of Regulator Watch.

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See an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder – if reading these you are looking into a mirror, do not blame Wilt, especially if your name is Elisabeth.

Being a pure “evil” person argument is a strong contender – Calleja was intent upon doing the maximum harm to her victims. This does not of course exclude simple mental health problems. “I want this agency de-registered” (or words to that effect) or this and that person de-registered from the GSCC suggests a vengeful and disproportionate attitude especially when it carries on a decade after her perceived abuse of her by others – abuse which all evidence indicates never really took place, although she did as a foster parent suffer some mild maladministration by a local authority (Northamptonshire – see the CSCI Internal Review Report).

Such efforts at revenge never stopped her after it was conclusively determined that the CSCI/GSCC/Police/Information Commissioner could find no grounded cause of complaint – she simply regarded those agencies as complicit in her “paranoid” view that there was a conspiracy, and thus she was even more embolden.

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“Paranoid” is one thing, “Munchausen’s Syndrome” is another – that remains a virtual certainty. However how about Calleja being a Narcissist? Well, the combined thoughts of the experts seem to agree at least on this description of the nun with a switchblade – a term coined to describe Julie Andrews of The Sound of Music acting fame who was, it is suggested, “a bit of a bully.”

This assessed Narcissist – Elizabeth – fits every description of that mirror admiring Greek mythological figure. Indeed she would surpass the fame of that classical body that ultimately became a disgrace both in life and death. She does live in infamy and a warning to mankind in terms of “selfishness”, but Calleja will leave no legacy, other than the compensations awarded to her victims. And those compensations were rather generous!

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In this article in Community Care http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/02/02/116208/gscc-committed-to-improving-profession-in-final-year.htm the CEO of the GSCC is “committed to improving the profession” in its final year of existence as a regulator.

It’s a crying shame they were not committed to the same in the previous 7 years in its abysmal mismanagement of regulating social care.

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Penny Thompson is quoted as saying:

“There will be no let-up in the focus on quality and fairness.” AND

“We are continuing to learn from what we do and improve the quality of our assessments and investigations.”

In fact, they never learn judging by the findings of the Second Tier Care Standards Tribunal who have criticised them over and over again on unfairness, disproportionate actions/decisions and sometimes downright skulduggery in the dealings with registrants and prospective registrants. And that includes very recent criticisms.

What planet does this Penny Thompson live on?

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The General Social Care Council seems to have a twin sister the “under review” Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

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The ISA http://www.isa-gov.org.uk/ is one of those Quangos currently under review and its remit and scope caused massive a massive outcry of protest and derision after it emerged that every man, woman and their respective dogs and cats would be forced to register (with attendant fee) or otherwise be criminalised.

This included moms and dads who shared the role of the school run! It was shown to be utterly daft and, more importantly, unworkable.

There was a programme set in place to gradually register certain groups (e.g. those already with a CRB check in place) before ever more widely registering virtually everyone who have contact with children (other than their own) and vulnerable adults. That programme was stopped by the present Government whist the ISA was put under review.

It was intended that the ISA would replace the current Protection of Children Act (POCA) list, List 99 (teachers barred) and the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) lists. Murderer Ian Huntley although having been investigated numerous times by police for sexual offences did not appear on any list and the police, famously, relied on the defence that the Data Protection Act prevented action to alert relevant authorities – the response was a not unreasonable public outcry.

The idea for the ISA followed the recommendations of the Bichard Inquiry looking into the events of the Soham murders of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_murders) by Ian Huntley.

Recently the Telegraph has revealed in this article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8290307/Thousands-could-sue-Government-over-unlawful-child-protection-sackings.html that the ISA is proving to be a complete jerk when it comes to day to day “common sense” decisions – by giving automatic bans from working with children or adults for the most minor of indiscretions, and importantly not giving those people a right to give their side of the story.

The Telegraph gives some interesting examples of simply stupid bureaucratic examples of over and mismanagement by unaccountable quangoland pissheads.

The newspaper article focuses on several cases where people have accepted Police Cautions (i.e. considered minor indiscretions) as distinct from more grevious convictions handed down by a court, such as:

“Yet another mother was cautioned for child neglect after leaving her three children in the care of a seemingly responsible neighbour, a grandmother, while she took a relative to the airport. The neighbour left the children on their own for a while and the mother was barred from taking up a place on a nursing course.”

What a fucking mess. And it could lead to £millions being awarded in compensation to people for loss of earnings – because some twat at the ISA decided to ban various mums and dads from pursuing careers involving either children or vulnerable adults.

What complete fucking Dorks!

Here is another example:

“Another of the nurses, “Mrs W”, was barred for 10 years in June after accepting a caution for leaving her 11-year-old son at home on his own when she went shopping.

Her case was referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council which found that she had no case to answer. But Mrs W was unable to work as an agency nurse and, as a single parent responsible for her son, struggled financially. She was removed from the auto-bar list in August 2010, only after the RCN took up her case.”

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Obviously those at the GSCC and ISA were conceived of the of same stupid fucking mother and father in Whitehall, under the guidance of the Labour Government.

Jesus, what have we created in the aim of public protection? This quango together with its twin (the GSCC) needs burning at the stake. What is wrong with these people – are they not human?

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