Planet of the blinkered
18-05-11
Here we go again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13440493
What planet do these people live on?
Wilt
(From his hotel in XXXXXX)
18-05-11
Here we go again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13440493
What planet do these people live on?
Wilt
(From his hotel in XXXXXX)
09-05-11
OK, this is not good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13329634 It is similarly reported in the Telegraph who first reported on it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8501369/Public-sector-pay-soaring-out-of-control.html
It is just unacceptable. And of course, who is to blame – fucking Gordon Brown. Grrrrr!
The Tory Government (sorry coalition) need to get this sorted, big time. It is outrageous that any local/central government (sick leave) and gold plated pension lacklustre officer can Lord it over the much hard working and accountable private sector worker – it is a joke not very funny.
The entire sector of local government should be on a commission only basis, i.e. not providing direct services and commissioning officers on a maximum salary of £20,000 per year, and a Chief Executive on £30,000 per year. The private and third sector (voluntary sector – otherwise private sector by another name) can then determine their own charging.
Wilt
03-05-11
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
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?
Wilt
03-05-11
Oh look what we have rediscovered: http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/3061606/after-baby-p-the-crisis-in-child-foster-care.thtml
This article in the Spectator in 2008 reads like a fairy tale, of wonder woman ‘Sarah’ (Elizabeth Calleja) in her battle against injustice! Absolute and utter tosh.
As usual, Calleja only tells half truths and slips in a few untruths – she is dissembling like a good politician.
You will of course note that the Spectator Assistant Editor (Mary Wakefield) did not trouble herself in checking out the story before going to print. What did Tom, Dick and Harriet have to say; or Madge for that matter? What were the views of the police, NCSC/CSCI or Ofsted? Could they offer a more balanced appraisal? The answer is of course yes, but it was inconvenient to do so – otherwise there was no story, or fairy tale. An inconvenient truth might emerge.
Now, you would expect that a publication such as the Spectator would publish evidenced research – would you not? They neither do justice to the case of Calleja (not that she has one), to those accused of serious professional misconduct or to journalism.
What of course is fact is that Calleja considers herself to be and promulgates the idea that she is an innocent victim. She is neither innocent nor a victim, but the inconvenient truth is that she victimises others – has anyone else been arrested by the police and placed on bail for several months under suspicion of harassment? Now that is a very inconvenient and arresting fact, is it not? See this: http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2011/03/infamy-infamy/
Oh, and that big black file that Calleja/Wakefield have – we know of a police officer who would like to see it, together with the High Court in Birmingham who were told by Calleja that she held no records that could be disclosed in a defamation claim. Unlike Calleja who routinely claims to be a lawyer herself, we are not lawyers but we think that, in light of that big black folder, it might emerge yet that Elizabeth committed perjury in her signed Court statement (and not the draft version she sent to the GSCC). And such offences tend to carry fairly heavy prison terms, do they not Lord Archer? See here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1424501.stm
Callejia will, putting it mildly, create fictional documents, although not in any way that the police cannot instantly detect.
It is also very odd that a woman who the Spectator (and other publishers) choose to award anonymity to, is probably the best known litigant/vexatious pain in the arse known to central/local government and a multitude of Quango. For gawd sake, we all know who she is and why try to protect her? The public have a right to know which Dorks cause massive deployment of publicly funded resources in examining ‘non-essential’ and irrelevant issues – for goodness sake Calleja is irrelevant, her cause even less so. Even so, she spares no blushes when it comes to naming and shaming others from her ‘Big Black File’ ( and several more like it we are adsvised) – that is why we have no reservation about naming the TWAT.
In UK law, you face your accuser – face up Elizabeth or desist from your pathetic, stale and sorry efforts to be the Fairy Queen – no glass slipper would fit your fat foot, honest. An inconvenient fact, we think, princess.
If readers wish to further identify Calleja go here for a PUBLIC record: http://www.192.com/atoz/people/calleja/elizabeth/
Wilt
31-03-11
Ah Rosalind Shaw – we remember her. She was an early casualty of the disgraceful GSCC and their inept, innately unfair procedures and utter lack of compassion. In other words utter fucking Dorks.
Wilt reported on this case some time ago. See here: http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2010/03/more-fireworks/
And here: http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2009/10/dorks-with-bells-on/
This was 2009 – Rosalind was at/beyond retirement age but the GSCC decided, in its perverse wisdom, to remove her name from the Register of Social Workers. Wilt cannot say whether Rosalind perhaps should have bowed out sooner due to her age, more modern approaches to the work, and the undeniable effects of the profession upon any social worker, but it was clear that the woman was poorly treated. In fact undeniably badly treated and shat upon from a great height. What a way to end a long career – go you awful woman, irrespective of your long years of service and rot in hell, was the effect of the GSCC despatch.
Well, the GSCC had not then (in fact they never have) got to grips with a very basic concept called justice, or even human rights or indeed common sense, compassion or that useful tool called intellectual ability.
The Care Standards Tribunal (see above links) ordered a rehearing of Rosalind’s case; see here the recent Community Care article: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/03/30/116578/struck-off-social-worker-let-back-on-to-register.htm not least because she was in the days/weeks/months in the run up to her original GSCC hearing (2009) almost fully occupied in the care of her dying parent, then suffered the inevitable bereavement and then all the chores thereafter in the respectful “sending off” of the loved one.
Obviously the GSCC thought that “sending off” involved some kind of referee Red Card – they certainly gave Rosalind the Red Card for failing (despite her request to defer the case) in what must in the history of GSCC decisions been the most bizarre.
What exactly was this unemployed (of retirement age) social worker who had suffered a close family bereavement going to do to create such harm to the unsuspecting public? God knows, but the GSCC decided to add insult to injury by demonising her as utterly incompetent – to what end exactly? Of all the cases (and they number in the dozens) where the GSCC have been shown to be utterly incompetent, the case of Rosalind Shaw takes the biscuit. The GSCC were quite frankly cruel, let alone the technical facts of being incompetent and unfair. They relished in making this woman’s life hell – they enjoyed it, the bastards.
I reiterate, this was 2009 – the Care Standards Tribunal ordered a rehearing. It is now 2011, some two years later (I only state that as the GSCC twats do not understand arithmetic) and yes we have a result. The GSCC decided in their ultimate wisdom to replace the removal from the Register with a one year admonishment. Wilt needs to allow this to sink in – a one year admonishment!
What the fuck is wrong with these people – are they total twats and idiots? Answers please on a postcard.
Look…. Rosalind is a nice old lady (sorry Rosalind for the ‘old’ reference) and is rather harmless – she never (even the GSCC agree) had any proper supervision or support, and yes she may have not been at her best; was it really necessary to admonish her after two years post the claimed failings? All we now need is a further complaint to the Care Standards Tribunal, and Rosalind would have a perfectly reasonable case.
What is utterly laudable out of this very sad case matter is that the GSCC (from the Community Care article) stated:
A spokesperson for the GSCC said: “In this and all cases we take the decisions of the First-tier Tribunal seriously, learn from them and use the recommendations to improve our processes.
“We firmly believe that the engagement of the registrant in the conduct process is important for ensuring the fairest outcomes, and it is something that we try to encourage.”
Now that is taking the piss – the GSCC never learn. More to the point, as illustrated in this case, they do not give a fuck either.
This is why Regulator Watch exists – the cool and dispassionate reporting of Community Care, the obvious duplicity, incompetence and facile approach of the GSCC requires a Regulator of the Regulator.
Community Care needs to get a grip and start being passionate – they fail in their rather grey and anaemic coverage of core social care issues; be acerbic and challenging. You are either with social workers, especially now, or you aint. It is that simple.
Wilt
28-03-11
And so CAFCASS might be another burned Quango, perhaps: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/03/25/116540/mps-told-cafcass-is-beyond-reform-and-must-be-abolished.htm
Who might miss them – not many we think. Nice idea and all that but CAFCASS had a difficult birth and has gone on to be rather disabled in the minds of many. Not a lot more successful than some other former quango like the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC) and its successor the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) – both now defunct and their regulatory functions transferred either to Ofsted or the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We will see what happens to CAFCASS – as predicted by Wilt, some time ago, its numbers are up.
Next – Ofsted. If you are interested you can apply to become the next CEO here: https://www.appointments.org.uk/jobdetails.aspx/1340/Office_for_Standards_in_Education_Children_s_Services_and_Skills_Ofsted_Her_Majesty_s_Chief_Ins/?page=1&Ssimple=
The salary is £180,000, whilst it lasts. You could not do worse than the current incumbent.
Wilt
This is rather an unusual one:
http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View.aspx?ID=1142
A GSCC Registrant suspended but who was guilty in the eyes of the Care Standards Tribunal. It comes down to proportionality, again – that term in language that the GSCC just never seem to get quite understand. The registrant might have been a naughty boy, and he was, and deserved perhaps an admonishment, but now he goes free to access who knows what on the internet.
Not quite what the public would have expected, eh GSCC?
Wilt
24-03-11
So it aint just MPs who are frauds – there appears to be social workers too. See the Community Care article here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/03/24/116533/social-worker-embezzled-26000-from-council.htm
We do miss taunting ex-MP Plaskitt after he lost his Warwick and Leamington Spa seat – likewise Elizabeth Calleja the ‘paralegal’ or otherwise idiot that goes around telling people she is a lawyer. She is not even a paralegal.
Anyway, back to our fraudulent social worker – no doubt she will be soon serving at Her Majesty’s Pleasure. Don’t bend over to pick up the soap in the shower darling!
Also in the news is former MEP Den Dover – see the Telegraph article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8404081/Disgraced-Tory-MEP-faces-criminal-charges.html
There is only one thing worse than a fraudulent MP or civil servant or local government officer, and that is a MEP. Dover needs locking up and his assets seized. What a wanker!
Wilt
09-03-11
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!
Wilt
23-02-11
Fucking unbelievable – what is wrong with these people? See the BBC article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12555903
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!
Wilt