A hearing into the conduct of a Registered Social Worker will be held from 19 - 23 May by the social care workforce regulator for England, the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

The social worker is alleged to have committed misconduct and breached the GSCC’s Code of Practice for Social Care Workers by:

Failing to act on information from a child in foster care who told her they had witnessed a stabbing at their grandmother’s home.
Failing to notify the principal officer of child protection and administration at Brent Council that two children in care had returned to the country and were subsequently placed in foster care in a different London borough, and in doing so allowed the Child Protection Register and records held by the Police and emergency services to reflect inaccurate information.
Advising a child in care that a permanent foster placement had been found for them without informing the care home she was doing so, then failing to update the child of the progress of the identified placement for four months.
Failing to make visits to a child she had a statutory duty to see and recording on a review document that she had made them.
Being rude and/or abusive to colleagues.
Making false and incomplete statements regarding her employment history in her application for GSCC registration, in her application for employment with Social Work Line Ltd, and in her application to become an adoptive parent with Barnet Adoption Agency. This included the failure to disclose her dismissal from a social care role at Brent Council for gross misconduct

On registering with the GSCC, social work students and social workers agree to abide by the Codes of Practice. Action can be taken if their conduct or practice is in breach of these. They can be removed from the Social Care Register if it is considered that they are no longer suitable to be a Registered Social Worker.

For media enquiries about the hearing, please contact Liz Hutchinson on 020 7397 5832 or 07876 440838 (mobile).