Social worker wilfully neglected a child

"A social worker has been struck off after she was cautioned by police for wilfully neglecting a child in her care."

"The social worker, who worked in a children’s home, was given a police caution for an offence under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 after she left a seven-year-old overnight alone in a hotel while she went out drinking. She and her brother had taken the child to Plymouth following a family bereavement."

"At 10:30pm on the night of the incident, the social worker and her brother left the child in the hotel room to drink in the hotel bar. She then left the bar for another, and later spent the night with a person she met there."

"The police were alerted at 9am the next morning by hotel staff after the child told reception they had woken up alone. The social worker accepted the caution the police gave her for neglect..."

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2015/09/23/social-worker-struck-wilful-neglect-child-care/