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Ntandoyakhe Ncube

Registration number

SW124787

Allegations

1.    When you attempted a visit to Family A on 29 May 2019, you:
a)    Did not attempt to make contact with the mother when you found she was not at home;
b)   Asked her son to pass on the message that you had visited.

2.    You did not communicate effectively with Family B in that you:
a)             Did not attend a visit on 10 June 2019 to Family B as arranged;
b)             Did not make contact with Family B to explain that you would not attend the visit;
c)             Did not contact Family B again until 14 June 2019.

3.    While you were the allocated social worker for Family C, you did not:
a)    Attend a Network meeting at Service Users CA and CB’s school scheduled to take place on 24 June 2019;
b)   You did not contact the school to inform them that you would not be in attendance at the meeting.

4.    Between 2 September 2019 and 4 September 2019 when asked to remain with Service User D to facilitate a handover to their father, you:
a)    Did not follow management instruction to remain with the service user until their father arrived to collect them;
b)   Left Service User D’s home to attend a visit with another family;
c)    Did not inform your manager and/or Service User D’s father that you had left;
d)   Were not present when the father arrived and/or did not answer his call;
e)    Were not contactable when your manager tried to contact you;
f)     Asked the parent of the second family for a lift back to Service User D’s home.

5.    While you were the allocated social worker for Service User E from around 26 February to 30 April 2020:
a)    In a Child in Need meeting on 24 April 2020, you did not chair the meeting effectively in that you:
i.      Did not circulate the Child in Need plan in advance of or during the meeting;
ii.    Did not discuss the Child in Need plan and/or the outcomes during the meeting;
iii.  Had not progressed the action points since the previous meeting on 20 February 2020;
iv.  Did not enquire about Service User E’s living arrangements.
b)   During a Child in Need meeting on 24 April 2020, you indicated that you did not know what a personal budget was, despite having reported on 27 March that you had made a request for one.
c)    In an email on 23 April 2020, you requested information to enable an Education Health and Care needs assessment to be completed, despite Service User E having already been awarded an Education Health and Care Plan.
d)   In your record of a home visit with Service User E on 16 March 2020, you did not provide analysis of their mother’s mental health concerns.

6.    While the allocated social worker for Service User F:
a)    From 12 March to 5 April 2020, you did not follow management guidance from AB to:
                                   i.         Prepare a grab pack;
                                 ii.         Conduct a return to home interview in an appropriate setting;
b)   Your case note dated 11 March 2020 was not clear and/or did not include adequate analysis of risks;
c)    You did not complete a case note on 12 May 2020 regarding contact with the safeguarding officer.

7.    In the following Child and Family assessments, your written communication was not clear and/or lacked analysis:
a)    Child and Family Assessment for Family G dated 16 August 2019
b)     Outreach form for Family G
c)    Child and Family Assessment for review child protection case conference, completed on 14 April 2020 for Family H
d)   Child and Family Assessment for review child protection case conference, completed on 19 July 2019 for Service User D
e)    Child and Family Assessment completed on 23 March 2020 for Family I
f)     Child and Family Assessment for review child protection case conference, completed on 28 August 2019 for Service User J

8.    Whilst you were the allocated social worker for Service User X from 7 February to 8 September 2020, you:
a)    You took your child with you to one or more child protection visit(s) with Service User X on a date or dates unknown;
b)   Took and/or allowed Service User X’s mother to take one or more photos of Service User X with your own child;
c)    Your actions at a and/or b above represent a failure to maintain professional boundaries

The matters outlined at 1 to 7 above amount to the statutory ground of lack of competence or capability and/ or misconduct.
The matter outlined at 8 above amounts to the statutory ground of misconduct

By reason of your misconduct and/or lack of competence or capability, your fitness to practise is impaired. 

Outcome

Adjourned part-heard

Notes

The hearing was adjourned part-heard, and details of the resuming hearing will be published shortly. 

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