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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.

Wilt

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A Warwick fraud – surely not!

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Warwickshire do not have frauds, do they? Well, actually a few but this one is in the news today: http://order-order.com/2011/05/31/tory-lord-taylor-gets-12-months/

And here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13599624

And this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8547572/Lord-Taylor-jailed-for-12-months-over-expenses-fraud.html

Try this one too: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392685/Former-Tory-peer-jailed-12-months-fiddling-expenses.html

Plus this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/31/mps-expenses-lord-taylor-jailed

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Poor old Lord Taylor of Warwick – it actually is kind of sad that a black Peer is marked down and indeed sent down for fraud; it actually does not help black politics or the black community who need icons and leaders of distinction, at least not of his now distinction.

The fact is however he should have known better and behaved better and indeed given his legal qualifications should have realised he was going to be found guilty given the weakness of his defence.

However, he deserves no sympathy, any more than his fellow white fraudulent political figures.

We wonder if he knows any other folk previously or currently resident in Warwickshire associated with fraudulent behaviour. And of course he is also a former Solihull politician before he migrated to become a failed MP candidate but eventual Member of the House of Lords.

Now he has some other royal appointment with a prison warden.

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What a sad plonker.

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p.s: don’t bend over in the shower old chap

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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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What is all this crap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8529609/Newspaper-publishes-name-of-footballer-with-gagging-order.html OR: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389841/The-great-gagging-order-revolt-Scottish-paper-prints-picture-super-injunction-footballer-30-000-unmask-Twitter.html

Has Wilt checked out Twitter? No. Did he phone friends in Scotland to discover this not so mysterious footballer? No. Does Wilt give a shit? No.

Does Wilt know who he is? No. Is Wilt interested? No.

There are so many conflicting invested interests in the matter to defy mathematical equation.

What about some real news like Syria, Libya and the rest of North Africa? Perhaps we could rely upon the press to look at the economy, indeed how the press have broken the law by hacking mobile phones or the price of bread. Indeed anything, please, other than footballers who shag an ex-Miss Wales.

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Of course Mrs ‘Android’ of Leamington Spa and Plaskitt (Mr ‘Dunes’) will be all a ‘twitter’ not knowing quite whether freedom of speech is the primary concern or whether being ‘big brother’ in Orwellian fashion should command the day. Well, this website will not be constrained by ‘1984’ type restrictions which Calleja/Plaskitt have hitherto tried to apply to Regulator Watch.

We will not however be naming the footballer (even if we knew who he is) not because of some kind of restrictions on freedom of speech but simply because we do not care much about consenting adults shagging each other. Wilt admires that they have the energy to do so but quite frankly is otherwise not interested.

Meanwhile Wilt is back from overseas after a long, hard working and complex workload week requiring many meetings and mind crunching reflection. However, in compensation Wilt enjoyed glorious weather around the pool with his laptop/Blackberry in hand in the late afternoons – this is the only way to do business. Oh, and this time the hire car company upgraded him to a Saab 93 Convertible – it ‘fitted him’ like a glove.

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Next!

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UPDATE: You could not make it up – fucking John Hemming has again been a complete fucking dork!

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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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What a total dork. Impersonating a social worker: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/03/08/116417/first-conviction-for-impersonating-social-worker.htm This relates to Tracy Smithy convicted of the said offence under the Care Standards Act 2000.

Wilt knows of someone who impersonates a lawyer – she lives in Warwickshire. She also is a total jerk, allegedly!

Allegedly, a well known term used by Ian Hislop, has some advantages.

It is also known that the GSCC are allegedly a regulator.

Perhaps all three, Tracy, the jerk from Warks and the GSCC should get together and share in ‘how to be a fraud’ party – and toast a drink to their fabulous failures.

Wilt is up at some unearthly God forsaken hour to catch a flight on business – back Friday night and then a family wedding Saturday.  Who gets married on a six nation’s rugby weekend, for Gawds sake – have these people no respect? Wilt will have to be dragged from the hotel room to go to the wedding, then back to the hotel room to watch a second game before being dragged again to the formal reception!

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Latest news, Sharon Shoeamith is given leave to appeal – excellent. Just heard it on the radio 4 news this will be interesting.

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The GSCC have had another bashing from the Care Standards Tribunal (CST) in this case: http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Judgments/j1092/ND%20Final%20Approved%20draft%20_3_.pdf

This is very similar to an earlier case where, in Wilt’s opinion, the GSCC are using the suspension procedure used by the Preliminary Proceedings Committee (PPC) to cover for delays in their investigation teams. Although the CST have not expressed in that way it is fairly obvious what message they are sending to the GSCC – get your act together.

Community Care reported on the outcome of the GSCC final hearing of its Conduct Committee here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2010/08/12/115083/Cocaine-user-allowed-to-remain-on-social-care-register.htm although they appear not have linked it to the CST finding (link above). Community Care appear not to report on CST hearings, or at least not routinely – here at Regulator Watch (http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/) we do.

In essence the CST finding that issuing a suspension whilst investigations were made, in this case, was perverse is supported by the GSCC Conduct Committee who issued the Registrant with a two year admonishment – a low level disposal.

So what was the miraculous change that caused the GSCC at one time to suspend the social worker and then issue an admonishment? Might it be they fucked up again at the PPC?

This social worker was represented (at the CST) by the Celtic Knot law firm based in Birmingham http://www.celticknot.org.uk/ and Allan Norman has a blog here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=Allan%20Norman&blog_id=276

And tweets here: http://twitter.com/CelticKnotTweet

We still think he needs a ‘proper’ hair cut – only joking!

Allan Norman and a former student Registrant was not so lucky in this CST appeal: http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Judgments/j1091/sass2%20decision.pdf

This is the first time it seems that a former Registrant has complained that the GSCC did not go through the conduct process and arrive at the process – the man must be on something!

This is a most mind boggling and stupid case to bring before the CST. The arguments for bringing it presented by Norman were very carefully constructed and eloquent but nonetheless, in Wilt’s opinion, utter fucking folly.

This is a must read case – I laughed so much I fell of my chair.

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Some people continue to believe they are above the law, including Mrs C. See here: http://order-order.com/2010/07/30/lord-chief-justices-rules-mps-to-be-treated-as-common-criminals/

And here: http://order-order.com/2010/07/30/in-the-courts/

These three MPs and single Lord are going to end up in Court and the evidence tested as to the charges of fraud.

Unless of course they make some further appeal and win it – who is paying for these Court cases? I suspect it is the taxpaying public.

The Telegraph states:

“The four men are now expected to take their case to the Supreme Court for a further appeal, meaning any trials, which had been expected to start at Southwark Crown Court in London in November, might now be delayed until next year.”

The BBC report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10814765 and the Telegraph here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/7918481/Former-MPs-charged-with-abusing-expenses-will-face-criminal-trials.html

What absolute twats.

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Which is worse, a one year suspension or a 5 year admonishment? Does either fit the circumstances applied in each case?

It is difficult to go behind the GSCC Committee on such matters as they are charged with handing down their disposal – albeit subject to potential appeal. See the Community Care article here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2010/07/23/114970/social-worker-banned-for-offering-client-weekend-of-ecstasy.htm

The formal notice of the GSCC findings is here: http://www.gscc.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4DD0DB39-84FE-48C2-8938-42325E89D56A/0/NOTICEOFDECISIONCARNEY.pdf

And here: http://www.gscc.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/9E64FE17-F80A-4A86-8F24-7536079B13A5/0/CAHILLNoticeofDecision.pdf

Let us start with the latter case, Cahill.

He takes a service user/client down to the pub, touches up her bum and offers to take her away to Paris for a dirty drug filled weekend. What a fucking Dork of the first order. Cahill is suspended for 12 months as it was essentially a one off incident. It was however probably one of the most serious of acts of professional misconduct – a breach of professional boundaries and of trust in his capacity to hold the service users right to self determination and needs as paramount.

Some might think Cahill was quite lucky to get away with just a year suspended.

In contrast, Carney who admitted the offence of harassment and was convicted as such was subsequently admonished for 5 years by the GSCC. Why 5 years for Gawd sake?

There is no doubt it was a serious offence but it was both confined to a particular set of private circumstances (does not reduce its seriousness) and limited to a small number of events. The GSCC acknowledge he was under extreme personal pressure and again emphasise an otherwise long and successful career in social care, plus it did not involve a service user.

The man admitted his offence and regrets his actions. What then, exactly was the purpose of a 5 year admonishment?

His outcome is far worse (Wilt believes) than the year long suspension by Cahill and whose offence (in professional terms at least) is the worse. Yes Carney got it wrong, yes domestic abuse (emotional in this case it seems) is a no go area and highly serious – but 5 year’s admonishment after he admitted his guilt and dealt with by the Courts. Is that proportionate? What exactly was the GSCC thinking it might achieve?

You see Cahill after a year has, as it were, done his time and moves on – there is no mark against his name on the GSCC Register and, we assume, moves on. No one is any the wiser.

Carney however does not serve his term for 5 years – instead he carries the yoke of his GSCC Registration (a public name of shame board) until 2015. We find this very odd.

Most people will experience some crisis in their life, some several and a few many. Social workers, and others, aim to help people out of crisis and hopefully develop the skills to cope with crisis better (crisis intervention theory). Generally speaking, putting a yoke around their neck (labelling – give a dog a bad name) is not the accepted best method to help achieve better outcomes.

Regrettably the GSCC has confused, yet again, ‘outcomes’ with ‘outputs.’

Pick a number, any number between 0 – 5 and you tell me what seems fitting for Carney.

Now tell me what would you hand down to Mrs C for her harassment?  Not for her a one off or limited harassment of one person over a period of eight years, but together with basket case Dune Boy James Plaskitt (ex MP) harassment  IN FACT of numerous persons who by a process of other investigations are proven innocent of any harm to her/him.   Well, we will find out when it gets to Court, with her big black files.

We think Cahill was very fortunate; Carney dealt a very poorly judged disposal and Mrs C/Plaskitt will discover in all good time the meaning of breaking the law.

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