Hearings and decisions
Upcoming hearings and decisions made by our adjudicators
Ian John Orchard
Registration number
SW32319
Allegations
1. In or around June and July 2018, whilst employed as a Social Worker for South Gloucestershire County Council’s Children’s Services, you demonstrated poor practice when completing a Child Protection Investigation and subsequent Single Assessment report in that you:
a. Failed to demonstrate impartiality within your work.
b. Failed to make reasoned, professional judgements.
c. Did not communicate effectively with Service User 1 during the course of your enquiries.
2. In or around September and October 2018, whilst employed as a Social Worker for South Gloucestershire County Council’s Children’s Services, you demonstrated poor practice when completing a Child and Family Assessment relating to Service User A in that you:
a. Used blaming language and/or showed a lack of objectivity – including, but not limited to, the language detailed in Schedule A – throughout the report regarding Service User A.
b. Inappropriately shared details regarding criminal records/previous offences within the report relating to Service User A’s partners.
c. Failed to complete the report in a timely manner, as directed.
Your conduct in relation to allegations 1 and 2 amounts to misconduct.
Your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct.
Schedule A
i. “continually becomes involved with men with whom she has serious incidences of domestic violence”;
ii. “continues to deny that she is at fault in any way”;
iii. “maintains she is a victim in her relationships, she does not accept that she has moved from one relationship to the other recklessly”;
iv. “[the] reckless way [Service User A] jumps from one relationship to another”;
v. “[Service User A] seems not to be able to stop repeating the pattern of finding abusive partners”.