Social worker struck off

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A SOCIAL worker convicted of stealing money from a mentally ill pensioner she was providing care for has been struck off by the General Social Care Council.
Martha Wright, 33, was employed by Trafford Councils Social Services when she stole almost Pfund5,000 from the elderly woman over a period of nine months.
She was convicted of nine counts of obtaining money by deception at Manchester Crown Court in 2007, and given 240 hours community service, and a suspended sentence.
At a hearing yesterday, the GSCC Committee said Wright had significantly abused her position of trust and had caused direct harm to a particularly vulnerable service user, who was left with virtually nothing in her bank account.
They said Wrights behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continuing to be a registered social worker, and that dishonesty associated with professional practice is so damaging to public confidence in social care services, removal was the only appropriate sanction.
They also said shed clearly breached the Code of Practice all social workers sign up to when registering with the GSCC.