Skip to content or view screen version

Social Services and Abuse

Ferganoid | 12.01.2002 14:40

Social workers will join doctors and lawyers in being struck off for bad conduct under long-awaited reforms unveiled yesterday.


Incompetent or negligent staff will be forced out of the profession by a new governing body, which is setting up the first register of 1.2 million social workers in England. The General Social Care Council is also introducing a draft code of conduct to improve standards in the profession, which has suffered from a poor image and repeated scandals. In future, all 80,000 social workers and other care workers will have to sign up to the code before being allowed on to the register.
Those deemed incompetent or negligent will then risk being struck off the register, which should prevent them being re-employed as social workers. A second code for employers will oblige managers to make checks before recruiting social workers, including checks of police records.
Lynne Berry, the council's chief executive, said the regulatory framework was long overdue and would help to reduce the likelihood of a repeat of the failings that led to Victoria Climbie's death. Many people would be shocked that nationally agreed standards did not already exist, she said.
"It is very important that we do something that addresses the concerns of the public and raises the esteem and morale of the workforce. Many people have been hoping for a long time for these codes to be developed," she said.
The code says social workers must safeguard the interests of their clients, respect their independence, strive to maintain trust, balance the rights of service users and carers with the interests of society, take responsibility for their practice and learning, and justify public trust.
It is likely to come into force next summer, after which it will form a basis for disciplinary hearings in the workplace. But the council will not be ready to run full-blown inquiries into malpractice, similar to the disciplinary hearings for doctors and nurses, until the register is completed in 2003.
Baroness Pitkeathley, the council's interim chairman, said the body would provide a "champion" for social workers and "reinforce the public's trust by keeping unsuitable people out of the workforce".

Ferganoid
- Homepage: http://stopabuse.org/HRUK.html

Comments

Hide the following 4 comments

excuse me, 'ferganoid', populist

12.01.2002 16:41

now, in your last article you lambasted a commentator for being a 'pethetic [sic] middle-class tosser.' You rant abour rich creeps in Rolls Royces victimising poor proletarian children but now according to this piece, you obviously place YOUR trust in the aristocracy, Baroness Pitkeathley or someone! What on earth are you trying to achieve ?
some kind of 'noid' you may be, but the theme you continually talk about is much too serious to be left to populists like you.

auguste


excuse me, 'ferganoid', populist

12.01.2002 16:42

now, in your last article you lambasted a commentator for being a 'pethetic [sic] middle-class tosser.' You rant abour rich creeps in Rolls Royces victimising poor proletarian children but now according to this piece, you obviously place YOUR trust in the aristocracy, Baroness Pitkeathley or someone! What on earth are you trying to achieve ?
some kind of 'noid' you may be, but the theme you continually talk about is much too serious to be left to populists like you.

auguste


excuse me, 'ferganoid', populist

12.01.2002 16:43

now, in your last article you lambasted a commentator for being a 'pethetic [sic] middle-class tosser.' You rant abour rich creeps in Rolls Royces victimising poor proletarian children but now according to this piece, you obviously place YOUR trust in the aristocracy, Baroness Pitkeathley or someone! What on earth are you trying to achieve ?
some kind of 'noid' you may be, but the theme you continually talk about is much too serious to be left to populists like you.

auguste


Dear Auguste

14.01.2002 11:52

RE: "The theme you continually talk about is much too serious to be left to populists like you."

I have nothing against people in Roils Royce’s except for the ones that pray on homeless young boys. This is probably because after leaving "care" at the age of 18, I was prayed on by such scumbags.

I have nothing against middle class people except the ones who lay there own guilt trip about being middle class on to me. When such people do so they behave like tossers.

I am not nor have ever been a populist, my history both in the "care" of Social Services and with the mental Health Service is well documented and the issues I am raising concern me my self.

Rather than running me down you should help me by promoting my site and its ideas. Also you might learn something if you read what is on it.

If you post any more silly comments, about my submissions, you are truly pathetic and I will I will simply ignore you.

Ferganoid
- Homepage: http://stopabuse.org/AIMS.html