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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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And another success: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/10/116976/baby-p-social-worker-to-receive-damages-from-the-sun.htm

See also here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/09/116977/baby-p-verdict-a-victory-for-social-workers.htm

It was Deidre Sanders of The Sun who was in 2009 identified as a keynote speaker for the GSCC 2009 Conference which was received with disbelief and anger by both the social care press and social care workers. In fact a petition was signed by Wilt and several hundred others objecting to Sanders being given a voice by the GSCC.

See here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/10/15/112878/deidre-sanders-tells-gscc-conference-tide-has-turned.htm

And here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/09/30/112712/anti-deidre-sanders-petition-gets-over-350-signatures.htm

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The fact that The Sun is now to pay substantial damages to a social worker falsely accused by the newspaper of being implicated in the death of Baby Peter not only implicates The Sun but also the GSCC who were so insensitive to the views of the social care sector.

So GSCC, another nail in your coffin – you are a disgrace. Tabloid journalism is one thing, but tabloid regulation falls well short of what was intended and is unacceptable.

Shoesmith is only the beginning – like Arthurworry (Climbe) before her, there are a few other social workers lining up to challenge their treatment by the quadruplet congenial self-preservation society of Haringey, Ed Balls, Ofsted and the GSCC.

This is also a blow to the likes of Calleja who we know has tried to cash-in on the Baby P disaster by claiming she also was failed by social workers i.e. her convivial meeting with Mary ‘Contrary’ Wakefield which led to the Spectator article, see here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/3061606/after-baby-p-the-crisis-in-child-foster-care.thtml#comments

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More like a Jackanory story.

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It was inevitable that the focus on MPs expenses would turn to the expenses of civil servants and local government officers. The Telegraph are on a run with this latest attack of those high living officers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8555445/Civil-servants-spend-25m-on-credit-cards-including-luxury-hotels-fine-dining-and-golf-trips.html

If there is truth in some of these claims then like MPs and Peers some of these civil servants and town hall geeks should be investigated by the police. It makes the blood boil.

We will see how this story develops.

Council Housing

Meanwhile council/housing association tenants who earn more than £100,000 are set to lose their rent subsidised homes: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8555223/Rich-to-lose-their-subsidised-council-homes.html

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Sounds like a good idea to me, especially if it hits the likes of that mad twat Bob Crow of the RMT union who, wait for it, earns more than £140,000 – and no doubt he has a union credit card for expenses.

Taxpayer Funded Union Officials

Talking of trade unions the Tax Payers Alliance (Wilt is a member) are pursuing a number of campaigns including the ridiculous position where full time trade union officials are paid for by employers – e.g. the NHS and local authorities. See an example here: http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/grassroots/2011/05/union-funding-tameside-council-rockets-48.html

London 2012 Tickets

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Another TPA campaign is to pursue those local authorities, quango and central government departments who have purchased London 2012 at taxpayers’ expense. See the article here:  http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/waste/2011/06/tickets-olympic-games-councils-quangos-snapping.html

The TPA are asking people to undertake a Freedom of Information request to their local council – details and a pro-forma can be found on the link above.

London Mayor

Of course the only sensible candidate is Boris – red Ken would be a nightmare but there is an equally nightmarish option of Lembit: http://order-order.com/2011/06/03/lembit-for-london-lumbering-along/

Some people just do not get it – do they? Wilt once had the unfortunate experience of bumping into Lembit in a hotel bar, along with several other political figures following a Question Time programme that was held in Llandudno in North Wales – Wilt was chairing a Tribunal hearing and was put up at the same hotel where David Dimbleby et al were also staying. Lembit was as much as a pillock as he looks/sounds.

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If Lembit gets in as Mayor (very unlikely) it would be time to pack your bags and emigrate to Mount Etna; if Ken gets in try emigrating to North Korea – their left wing views are a little less extreme!

Conditions of Service

As Wilt predicted some time ago the next phase of attack on central and local government is the ridiculous conditions of service offered to staff, not least sick pay: see the Mail article here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394106/Civil-service-sick-pay-Francis-Maude-pledges-end-archaic-benefits-system.html

The Government is dismantling pensions, pay, expenses and now sick pay – next holiday entitlement, which also needs examining. I know Watchful will see red – sorry mate.

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That is a pick of the news while Wilt has been away.

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The Care Quality Commission (and Ofsted in relation to children) is the successor of the former Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) which itself succeeded the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC) which became operational in 2002. Prior to that local authorities had internal supposedly ‘arms-length’ inspection teams.

Those local authority inspectors inspected mostly services to older people, and nurseries and children’s homes. Inspectors were then through 2001 – 2 selected to go to either the NCSC of Ofsted, the latter taking on responsibility for registering and inspecting nurseries.

The NCSC were left with a predominance of inspectors experienced mostly in services to older people or adults with disabilities and a much wider brief of now to inspect not only children’s homes but also fostering and adoption services. There was therefore a dearth of experienced child care inspectors – enter stage right Wilt, who undertook a 9 month part-time interim self-employed contract alongside his numerous other contracts around the UK. The NCSC were not as bad as some made them out to be, or at least not in Wilt’s experience. Then later they were reconfigured into the CSCI.

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In fact it was in the very first few days of the commencement of operations of the NCSC in early 2002 that Calleja lodged her complaint about her then fostering agency as set out in the CSCI Internal Review Report http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2009/11/csci-internal-review-report/ and in fact went on into the transfer of responsibility to the CSCI. And of course it has gone well into the current decade – given the most recent disturbing debacle by the CQC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13617196 one can guarantee that Mrs C will be fired up again and contacting the press and goodness know who else – except of course she will need to be very, very careful as she has already been arrested once for harassment and the CSCI Internal Review Report demolished her case of complaint and showed exactly her ability to spread malicious muck. Furthermore the GSCC, Information Commissioner and various police forces have dismissed her complaints too.

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However the purpose of this article is to observe that the CQC have not exactly been a success – in fact a complete joke. Neither has Ofsted in the debacle over Baby P – Calleja got onto that bandwagon too – exactly come out unscathed. The NCSC and CSCI were not great but they were certainly not as bad as this lot.

We predict another reorganisation.

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Wilt has a slightly mixed opinion on this issue: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/council-spending/8547994/Councils-spies-buy-night-vision-goggles-and-infrared-cameras-on-credit-cards.html

Whilst it is quite clear that local authorities (and others) have misused the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (ostensibly introduced to tackle terrorism) there does appear to be certain circumstances where surveillance techniques are justified. The Government believes it should be limited to suspected offences that attract a potential prison sentence.

Last time I looked, fly tipping, making false claims for social benefits (fraud) and anti-social behaviour/vandalism are in fact offences which can attract a prison sentence – oh and harassment too, Mrs Calleja!

Whether the equipment is purchased on a credit card does not appear to be relevant at all. What point is the Telegraph making exactly?

Several thousands of pounds on surveillance equipment (on credit cards or not) to save millions of pounds from claimant frauds et al who could be imprisoned if found guilty does not seem unreasonable to Wilt. That comes into the category of cost effective spending – provided they limit themselves to serious crimes and not on frivolous things like whether people live in a school catchment area.

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Wilt is in support of the reduction in benefits to those who do not genuinely need them, and especially the huge number of frauds who milk the system dry at the cost of my tax bill. If you want to earn income go out and find work – if your illness or disability prevents that, we will support you, provided you fail to pass the fitness to work assessment. That is the formal Government policy and we agree with it.

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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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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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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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