Dear JG

My TM at the time contradicted the allegations made by the parent regarding my practice and actually stated that they were untrue. SWE’s investigation report confirmed this and that the parent could not evidence his allegations re my practice. This was further confirmed by SWE’s Case Examiners. In effect this parent had rejected and abandoned his vulnerable and needy child, and this is what I challenged. The parent should have been, and indeed became subject to a Local Authority investigation, not me. It took SWE 2yrs and 7 months to progress its investigation regarding my practice to find no wrongdoing.There has to be something wrong with SWE’s processes and its understanding of the pressures and difficulties Social Workers have to work under. Hence I left the profession

Dear David

The only conclusion that I can draw, is that your case was just put through for SWE’s performance targets or maybe you were discriminated against because you were an agency social worker?

There is a much more serious FTP case than yours involving 2 social workers interfering in police matters during a CPP process that SWE have rejected (despite documented evidence). The Professional Standards Authority and the Social Workers Union are both aware of this case as well.

Hope this helps

If you’re black its worse

Dear JG

Thanks.

Throughout the SWE investigation I maintained complaints to SWE and Subject Access Requests to the LA where I was then employed as an agency SW. There were no complaints raised as to my practice by the LA.

This can be checked with their published data.

The cases that are rejected, aren’t published, so no one knows about them and also social workers’ who are being investigated aren’t aware of these cases which could potentially help them defend themselves in FTP hearings.

Basically, SWE are just cherry picking FTP cases and your case (unfortunately) was maybe just picked out to suit their published data?