A SOCIAL worker who verbally abused a cross-dressing boy has been struck off for gross misconduct.
A two-day hearing by the General Social Care Council (GSCC) found that 52-year-old Stanley Lansdell told the 15- year-old youth to, “get lost you f***ing, little gay b******”, before threatening to have him put into care and telling him that no one would believe him.
Mr Lansdell, who lives in Chester-le-Street, was working for Bradford Council at the time.
The hearing also heard that Mr Lansdell, who worked as a social worker in Darlington in 2005, had forged a reference from his former team leader in Darlington, Carol Brunt.
Altogether there were 59 counts of misconduct against Mr Lansdell. As well as the abuse to the 15-year-old boy, the charges included:
● Giving evidence in family court without authorisation;
● Breaching professional boundaries by inviting a service user to stay at his flat and visiting her on several occasions;
● Sending explicit text messages to another woman;
● Referring to his boss at Bradford as a “funny, fat f***er” and in correspondence with the GSCC called her a “tub of lard” and a “fat oaf”;
● Carrying out insufficient visits and not completing the necessary paperwork in the cases of 14 children.
All of the above charges were when he was working for Bradford Council in 2007.
Mr Lansdell worked for Darlington Borough Council for six months between March and September 2005 before he resigned.
He did not attend and did not have any representation at the GSCC conduct committee hearing which took place in London this week.
The committee found that “there was evidence of deep seated personality and attitudinal problems, that he had shown no evidence of insight and did pose a significant risk of repeating such behaviour”.
It added: “The registrant’s behaviour was a serious departure from the relevant professional standards outlined in the codes of practice for social care workers, that it had caused serious harm to others, both deliberately and through gross neglect, and that this was a continuing risk.
“The misconduct was a gross abuse of trust and a violation of the rights of people who use services.”
Mr Lansdell was struck off with immediate effect.
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