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We do rather think that the unions are walking into a trap – the Tory’s are just waiting to pounce with new, and Wilt believes welcome, new legislation to curtail the unions – Milliband, Balls, Tony Blair and others have warned them. See article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8599446/Michael-Gove-warns-teachers-against-militancy-ahead-of-planned-strike.html

Gove, as Mrs Wilt cares to refer to him as ‘looking like a schoolboy’, aint no idiot, nor are Milliband, Blair or Balls. Neither are the public who, like Wilt, are pissed off big time over the excessive benefits afforded public sector workers.

Bring it on unions! You aint seen nothing yet, believe me.

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This is not good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-13892076

Clearly lessons have not been learned following the deaths of Baby Pater and Climbe, and a whole host of other child death case matters that precede them. It is unacceptable and putting it down to poor communication, albeit a convenient press headline, is simply misleading. Clearly the BBC article points to individual failings among professionals, and indeed by the mother. Where was her family, or indeed the father of the child? As the serious Case Review (SCR) indicates, this child death was avoidable. One worker whose task it was to support the murderers was ill equipped or qualified to perform her role and did not challenge obvious concerns as this would have conflicted with her focus and interfere in the relationship! Never mind the child, darling! Twat.

But then what were the managers doing?

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It is the age old story that professionals are either fearful of parents or are distracted by them – the child is not the centre of concern. What is wrong with these people? And if anyone mentions lack of resources they should have their bollocks cut off. This is not a resource issue, it is incompetence.

A Community Care article is here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/23/117063/childrens-services-partly-to-blame-over-toddlers-death.htm

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Wilt took a look at the Wolverhampton City website: http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/ which apart from being the ugliest website ever (similar to the city itself – almost as bad as Coventry) has a link to the Summary SCR.

Wilt once took a wrong turning and arrived in Wolverhampton via Bilston – what a fucking shithole of a place.

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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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What is the problem with these changes to public sector pensions? The BBC article here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13800573 is informative.  For example:

‘All pension benefits that were earned before any reforms are introduced – including retirement ages and final salary benefits – will be protected, the government insists.’

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However all current members of the various schemes will need to make increased contributions from a certain date. All that seems fine to Wilt, albeit it is in addition to public sector pay freezes and in some cases, as Salopian points out http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2011/06/a-shropshire-lad/ , actual pay cuts. A message from Salopian to Wilt confirms that the pay cut and reduction in service conditions have now been approved by Shropshire County Council and will take effect from later this month, with or without the consent of the workforce. If necessary, that local authority will sack everyone and then re-employ them on new contracts – or of course individual workers can decline their new contract.

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Wilt can only dream that his local council would be prepared to do the same.

Times are hard – even for Wilt. Wilt however does have in addition his overseas contracts and he can fall back on those assets which he squirreled away for a rainy day – it is a shame that Brown, Balls and Milliband had not done so too rather than plough ‘funny money’ into the public sector.

Somehow Wilt finds it hard to believe that ‘Nokia’ Brown will not be becoming the next IMF representative.

What a shame.

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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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Guido and Wilt are at one on this issue: http://order-order.com/2011/06/06/the-war-on-pilgrims-goes-international/ as are the vast majority of sensible thinking people – which obviously excludes those full-time paid union officials at public expense.

Now if the unions want full time officials then we suggest that they pay them themselves and then we will see what the membership might think.

Meanwhile poor old Vince Cable http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8559306/Vince-Cable-heckled-at-union-conference.html is taking on his own war of words with the unions. He threatens new laws against strike action. Bring it on says Wilt.

What is the point of striking? There will be, as Wilt has long predicted, huge cuts in non-jobs, a realistic pension scheme, a freeze (i.e. cut) in salaries and a severe curtailment of outlandish conditions of service.

Before you know it, there will be some kind of equality between the public and private sectors.

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Wilt being a businessman, not a trade union member and unable to claim sick pay or take paid holidays believes these civil servants and local authority persons to have taken the piss for too long. Furthermore, Wilt has to finance his own office costs, heating/lighting and his own pension fund – neither does he have (as do public servants) a whole infrastructure of publicly funded finance officers/accountants to sort out his accounts, payments of wages and sort the tax return. Wilt does all that, at his expense/own time, in addition to the day job.

These public servants need a good dose of reality. That will cure them.

Wilt (grrrr)

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From the desk in North Wales:

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‘So there is a God after all’ must be words uttered by Sharon Shoesmith. This is a brilliant result:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13582644

And: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/baby-p/8541521/Baby-P-Sharon-Shoesmith-in-line-for-1-million-tax-funded-payout-over-unfair-and-unlawful-treatment.html among other reports. Oh, one supposes one should also mention Community Care: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/05/27/116898/shoesmith-wins-appeal-and-likely-to-get-1m-compensation.htm

Shoesmith was the scapegoat of all scapegoats in modern times – she deserved not to have a whole pile of shit dumped on her by Haringey Council, those utter fucking idiots Ofsted and least of all by that evil bastard Balls. If this result were only to put Balls to shame it would be a triumph worth its weight in gold, but of course it puts a whole host of others in the firing line.

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Playing politics with the tragic death of a child is not only disgraceful but very unwise, as this cased has eventually gone on to illustrate. Shoesmith, for whatever failings, was made a social work martyr and she aint even a social worker! It just goes to show that anyone resembling a social worker is likely to get huge amounts of crap poured on them, just for the hell of it. Very convenient for the likes of Balls (he is such an evil twat) but not exactly enlightened, informative or likely to lead to better practice.

Ofsted – well they are of course just a joke, not unlike the GSCC and its sister organisations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The likes of Balls (and it now also seems Gove – who Wilt thought better of) and these quango are all in cahoots. ‘You watch my back and I will watch yours’ comes to mind.

Over the time that Regulator Watch has existed Wilt has had numerous emails from disgruntled registered social workers and social care workers who have, quite frankly, been harassed by the GSCC (especially) and its neighbours. Some have sought advice, others remarked on the piss poor quango and, for the most part, very grateful subscribers who have found Regulator Watch an absolute Godsend and a root to reality whilst under immense pressure. Only the other day did one correspondent say that they were released from their torture by the GSCC after months of irrelevant enquiries which it admitted were not really necessary – they apologised and said they had new procedures to avoid putting registrants to the test when it could be obvious there was no case to answer.

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That rang a bell with Wilt – a close friend of his (pursued by Calleja and Plaskitt) for many years had a visit from a senior GSCC officer to deliver a personal apology. This was sometime in 2006/7 when that GSCC officer said: ‘Please do not quote me but she [Calleja] is vexatious.’ He went on, and this is the key point, ‘We now have in place procedures where this cannot happen again.’ Mmmmmmm we think.

There is no doubt whatsoever that Plaskitt (former MP and utter twat) and Calleja of Leamington Spa have any further currency with the GSCC, Ofsted, the police, parliament, the Information Commissioner or local authorities – they are quite frankly tagged as ‘toxic.’ They are simply a danger to public wisdom, the taxpayers of the UK (with their endless complaints) and common sense.

It seems the GSCC are having trouble again in promulgating anything remotely ‘common sense’ or even the concept of justice to its officers. They carry on, very highly paid with magnificent conditions of service, with aplomb, and quite frankly do not give a shit. They are a total and utter waste of space – the sooner they are made defunct the better.

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Whereas there are dozens upon dozens of Care Standards Tribunal findings against the GSCC: http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/courts-and-tribunals/tribunals/care-standards/index.htm there are countless other not reported actions by the GSCC because they do not come to fruition – mostly because they should never have been commenced in the first place and hence, being held in private, never come to public attention. We know this because of our correspondents – Wilt would wish they publish (anonymously) their messages on Regulator Watch – but he is bound by a faith of confidentiality not to publish online some very desperate and sad stories of registrants.

Wilt will never disclose private correspondence, unless you are Plaskitt or Calleja – both have previous ‘form’ when it comes to breaching confidentiality, whether from ‘abusing’ Parliamentary privilege or just ignoring behaviour which one might regard as reasonable of a ‘normal’ person. Regrettably Calleja is far from normal.

And so Sharon, what now my dear? Not again we think a Director of Children’s services, even if you wanted it. Take the money you rightfully will deserve, make wise investments and just relax – you deserve it.

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We wish you well.

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We do rather hope that Wall is OK: http://wallofbrick.wordpress.com/

S/he has not posted anything since October last year, which is a shame because Wall has a really good sense of humour and although we may not share the same politics the quality of the posts are very good. Indeed the whole concept of the blog, its name, structure and content demonstrate not only intelligence but also a well thought out idea.

Come back Wall – please. You and Guido http://order-order.com/ make up part of my daily diet of essential reading.

Meanwhile Wilt aint so sure that all this ‘privacy law’ stuff and the mass twitter outing of a certain footballer is at all healthy – it is just the tabloids using others to create mass hysteria about nonsense. It is not exactly like Clinton getting a blow job from Lewinski.

The fact that it was John Hemming, the most stupid of MPs (yes even more thick than former MP Plaskitt), outed the footballer just proves the point that it is all about selling newspapers and a bandstand for self-publicists such as this arsehole of a Parliamentarian – he even makes dwarf Bercow (the Speaker) look demure and retiring. The thing is, MPs with very small brains are very dangerous – on Newsnight even John Prescott came across as sharp minded when compared to Hemming. It is a shame that Prescott did not get the opportunity to give Hemming his infamous right hook to the chin – now that would have been newsworthy, and justified.

Why do the people of Birmingham Yardley give Hemming a seat in Parliament for Gawd sake?

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It is all in rather poor taste, 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!

Wilt

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

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.

Wilt

(From his hotel room in XXXXXXX)