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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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PMQ’s this week was an utter disaster for Milliband – he is really not having a good time of late, is he? Not that he was ever or will be up to the job of leader of the official opposition.

And of course the Ed Balls papers and the revelations contained therein have completely scuppered his prospects of taking over. A mate of Wilt’s who is an avid labourite (a former general election candidate) who Wilt loves to wind up down at the pub, stated that Balls was never in contention anyway.

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However, Guido Fawkes has again unearthed a little snippet of information here about the other Ed’s very poor performance at PMQ’s, here:  http://order-order.com/2011/06/15/labour-cancer-stitch-up-unravels/

There is more effective opposition from the Lib Dems – now who would have guessed that?

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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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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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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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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!

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)