"A psychologist at Kids Company has avoided being permanently banned from working in the UK after giving class A drugs to a vulnerable young woman she met through the now-defunct charity."
"Dr Helen Winter admitted taking MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, and being under its influence with two clients of the charity at a nightclub in south London in January 2014."
"She was banned from practising for 12 months at a professional hearing on Wednesday."
"The psychologist said she took drugs on several occasions during her leisure time, tested positive for cocaine and let two vulnerable young people, known as clients C and D, stay at her flat."
"Winter had denied offering the drug to the client or taking it in front of her in the nightclub toilet, but a Health and Care Professions Council panel found all the charges proven and ruled that Winter’s fitness to practise was impaired."
"Following a four-day hearing in London in January, she was given an interim 18-month suspension and on Wednesday was barred from the register for 12 months, stopping her from working as a practitioner psychologist in the UK."
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/10/no-permanent-ban-kids-company-worker-mdma-client?CMP=share_btn_fb
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