A hearing into the conduct of a Registered Social Worker will be held from 7 to 11 July 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 for failing to inform their manager that a complaint about their conduct was being investigated by a previous employer and for forming a personal relationship with the father of a child to whom she was the allocated social worker.

All Registered Social Workers are required to adhere to the GSCC’s 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.

Notes to editors

1. For media enquiries about the hearing, please contact Karen Welsh on 020 7397 5833 or 07876 440838 (mobile).

2. This hearing will be held at: CCT Barbican, Aldersgate House, 135-137 Aldersgate Street, London, EC1A 4JA.

3. If you wish to attend you must contact the GSCC beforehand, on the numbers given above. You may not be able to enter the hearing if you have not informed the GSCC that you will be attending.

4. Conduct Committees are independent of the GSCC and are made up of three to five members. They have a majority of lay members who do not have a background in the delivery of social care services.

5. To protect the confidentiality of witnesses (including children), who cannot be identified, limited information is available before the hearing. The GSCC issues guidelines to members of the press and public who attend the hearing.