GSCC Prejudice..........

Oooooops, the GSCC have again made another cock up, as determined by the Care Standards Tribunal. The adjudication can be found here: http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View.aspx?ID=1088 It involves:

• Evidence of delay by the GSCC


• Simple lack of investigation (not even an incompetent one)


• No proper weighing of the “public safety” test (at all it seems) against the “interests of the registrant”


• No proper consideration of proportionality of their decision

Unfortunately the GSCC get a slapped wrist and told to “do better next time.” Ah but will they? We will see.

There is, it seems to Wilt, a long history of the GSCC showing “previous form” e.g. they are recidivists. They have this terrible habit of forgetting that it is for them the burden to prove guilt – they simply find it easier to take the approach of “guilty until proven innocent.” It’s a lot simpler for them – never mind the poor registrant.

That is particularly true in another recent Care Standards Tribunal finding, below.

In a separate Case http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Public/View.aspx?ID=1086 yet again the GSCC get a “clip around the ear. In one sense one could understand the GSCC exercising caution but the case illustrates three things:

• Delay (again)


• Lack of investigation/analysis skills, AND


• Prejudice

This judgement, carefully weighed up as usual by the Care Standards Tribunal, is well worth a read.

Now these cases do stem back to the time when the GSCC were experiencing, it is reported, exceptional difficulties. It was, more to the point under the old management of the disgraced Mike Wardle, albeit the concerns outlined in these two recent case examples can be found in other cases from well before he was there – he was just a useful scapegoat.

Wilt has observed hitherto he is hopeful for the new management at the GSCC (if they survive at all) – I hope this is not the start of another long list of GSCC failures.

Wilt

Extravagance........

Wilt, he confesses is a bit of a “tart” and loves toys which makes life easier – not like a friend who has a “remote” for his TV and parks it next to the TV so he has to get up to collect the remote to change channels!  The fucking idiot has just lost the plot and lacks the simple common sense to appreciate that the TV “remote” is meant to be parked on the arm of the sofa – and this bloke is Oxbridge educated!

“Oh yes” he says as this fact is pointed out to him and one sees a light bulb lighting up over his head, as if in some cartoon – boy do I have some odd friends!

Anyway, back to toys and remotes..........

Mr & Mrs Wilt have this rather large double garage which we occasionally use to park a car overnight or more often whilst away for any period. Now the door to this garage is firkin huge, very heavy and gives Wilt a back ache whenever opening and closing it – so today he had Mr Electrician (and general good mate) fit a motor to the said door and now, gracefully, opens and closes at the simple touch of a key fob which each of the Wilt’s have attached to their keys – fucking brilliant!

No back ache and the neighbours are very impressed as Wilt drives up to an automatic opening garage door – posh or what?

All that is needed now is a robot to drive Wilt and Salty Dog to and forth the pub, oh and one that can cut the lawns and do the flower borders – mind you, what otherwise would Salty Dog do?

Wilt

Where are you Mr Cyclops?..................

It may, or may not, be a familiar news story that Gordon (Cyclops) Brown has been absent from Parliament since he walked elegantly (very difficult for him) from Downing Street hand in hand with wife and children – it was Wilt admits not a vitriolic sight even though he has dreamt of Gordon “just departing” from politics for many a year.

Wilt never intended however that he should just draw his salary and stay at home – I know it has been difficult Gordon, God don’t I know given the fucking mess you left us all in, but can you justify not representing your constituents at parliament? Why exactly are you absent without leave?

Is it perhaps true as Guido http://order-order.com/ reports that you are locked up in some mental health asylum, or are you just not giving a shit?

What about that career change, in the event you were no longer needed by the British public to serve your country – I submit by now you understand you are no longer required. You do however draw down a large salary, not as much as Wilt I confess, but at least Wilt “works” for his hard earned dosh. What exactly are you doing you stupid one eyed fucking twat?

Wilt suggests a career move for Gordon – how about (on a voluntary basis – no remuneration or expenses) undertaking a 5000 foot engineering survey of a 4999 foot pier over the Grand Canyon in the good old USA. Warning – no parachutes are allowed on this venture. Wilt is aware however of millions of people who would sponsor you on this great service to UK society, indeed world peace.

Keep taking the tablets Gordon – soon you might like to join forces with dune boy Plaskitt and Mrs C. They too have tablets which are mind changing – in fact LSD has that effect. Bloody brilliant stuff if you want to get “off this world” and live in cloud cuckoo land.

Wilt and Salty Dog prefer cider – a far more sophisticated, Wilt argues, of relaxing.

We are not missing you Gordon – not even a little bit but then you have duties to perform. Where are you Mr Cyclops?

Wilt

"Virgin” on the ridiculous..........

The author of this email is obviously of similar character to Wilt: see the Telegraph article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html

It’s an absolute must read – Wilt has been rolling around on the floor laughing for half an hour, which is why it took me that long to read it.

I must admit Virgin is Mr and Mrs Wilt’s preferred airline but perhaps not to Mumbai. The response from Branson, when you look at the evidence in the photographs supplied by the correspondent, is “Virgin” on the ridiculous.

I’ve not had such a good laugh since Tuesday after hearing Mrs C was arrested.

Wilt

Ten Commandments...........

I do have to say I found this rather helpful: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/childrens-services-blog/2010/07/the-ten-tenets-of-professional-risk-taking.html

Thank you community care: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Home/ and Judy Cooper/David Carson.

Wilt

Compensation.............

Baby P is all over the news again, albeit this time to the benefit of social workers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10478801.stm

And here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ioLJvwhZ9UALJ6D7o_-7Z08lnmyg

And here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/childrens-services-blog/2010/07/baby-p-social-worker-wins-libel-case-against-haringey.html

We are pleased that there is justice after all – a bit like with Mrs C who will also soon be all over the pages of the press. Poetic justice, wherefore lacking Dunes Boy Plaskitt, for the moment!

Meanwhile, Doctors get some headlines too – aint it strange all this is so belated? See article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10468747.stm

Perhaps the Doctor needs compensation too. The social worker certainly deserved it.

Wilt

Real and present danger.............

This is not about the film of the same title, although Mrs Wilt drools after Harrison Ford. Wilt looks a little like him, although better looking. <Edit note: Mrs Wilt falls off desk chair in howls of laughter and files for divorce on the ground that Wilt is utterly mad>

Anyway........

Oh what a surprise, not: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2010/06/30/114819/Family-Justice-Review-to-examine-role-of-Cafcass.htm

Of course Cafcass is going to be reviewed and it is not going to be a pleasant sight when the knife (or hatchet) blade comes in contact with flesh.

There has to be some kind of Children’s Guardian service but it does not need a Cafcass to run it – Courts or solicitors can do a better job, “cooperatives” (I hear Mrs Wilt shout – she also a Guardian) can also do the job, provided I argue there is some effective accountability professionally for independent Guardians i.e. they are supervised and are not let loose to run around and create havoc (and consequential costs) in the Family and County Court Family Divisions, as they had been hitherto.

The Ivory Towers of some Guardians, some of whom are a positive liability to the welfare of children, is a real and present danger. They utterly lack the skills necessary and are nothing less than armchair social workers who press the remote control buttons, thinking they are doing good – or worse in some cases knowing they are doing no good and simply claim the salary/fees/expenses for doing the minimum possible – and then suddenly realise “oh my Gawd I need to see the child and consult them.”

There are however excellent Guardians, very child focused and very driven to achieve the best for children – what they think is best and what Wilt may think is best may not always be agreed, but at least I respect their commitment and efforts, and indeed sometimes their superiority of argument over Wilt, who generally takes a very pragmatic approach. I have learned an awful lot from colleague Guardians of substance and merit, regrettably  have learned a lot more from Dorks who just happen to have the same title – but learned for the better.

What future then Guardians?

We could become very radical and vest the role back to the Probation Service, as it was pre-Children Act 1989. Perhaps not – these days that service has gone to the wall too!

Whatever, Wilt sees his income stream, in the UK at least, declining as Cafcass (indeed the whole Guardian service) and professional witness scheme feeling the Cameron et al effect on budget reductions. Hopefully it will be the precision of the surgeon’s blade rather than the butcher’s hatchet.

Wilt