Social worker gave an abusive ex womans new address

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Social worker 'gave safe house address to woman's abuser'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38719709

It doesnt say that she was struck off but she blooming well should have been

That is not uncommon. I know a woman who was housed by council to get away from her partner and sw passed on address to father

OMG how the hell are you supposed to trust anyone, poor woman and poor kids.

Friend of mine is a foster carer and had a child removed from her care because the sw accidentally gave her address to a family member of the child. Mistakes like this are quite common.

How on earth does this happen - am utterly appalled.

That is shocking

I can't believe a SW would do something like that

How can abused women feel safe if the police refuse to believe you and SW's hand over details to the abuser?

How can this be a 'mistake'?

Slightly different but the CSA gave my abusive my address despite the courts ordering he couldn't have it and sending a copy in to them.

Everything about that story makes my blood run cold. Poor, poor woman.

That is wholly unprofessional, not to say just plain stupid - and dangerous for all involved. As an ex-SW I am totally horrified by this. She should have been struck off - what is the point of registration if you can behave like this?

I read this this morning. Absolutely horrific. The sw decided that the ex had a right to know where his dc were. I hope the sw was strung out for that decision especially as it resulted in another attack on the woman.

Such a brace woman. I sincerely hope she is safe and happy now

I've seen SW's on MN being very blase about data protection and this doesnt surprise me at all.
There were posts where people were concerned about the welfare of neighbours, and SW's admitted they would tell the person who called about them. They couldnt understand why this would put some people off phoning SS.

This happened to a friend about five years ago, having just settled she had to move again and she had to go through the social worker for endangering her family. She did complain but it was brushed under the carpet.

Brace/brave bloody autocorrect

I would like to know how this SW would feel if it was her in that position, suffered abuse at the hands of a man, gets away only to have the address given to him by someone who should be only interested in the protection of her and her children!! it makes me so angry but also upset that these things happen.

This happened to me, too. Luckily, we lived too far away for my violent cunt of an ex to make the effort to travel. He did, however, resort to a year long campaign of harassment towards me, DS1's school, and DS2's nursery. He also made several malicious calls to SS, giving them my address and claiming to be a neighbour.

My complaint was ridiculed by the social worker in question.

Utterly shocking.

I used to work for Women's Aid.
We regularly had to move women between hostels as SW gave out addresses to violent partners.
The Police were worse actually, esp the men.
It was jawdropping how often it happened.
But then, in the area I was in, a Policeman was convicted for further assaulting and raping the victims of assault he had been 'helping' so I think the culture in that area was completely skewed.

Once you are a victim you are still vulnerable. To incompetence like this.
and to other predators. It should not stop women making changes. But it is surprisingly not uncommon, sadly.

This is horrendous. People are saying on here at these mistakes happen quite often, SW are blase with personal information etc and yet whether there's a thread about SW making mistakes in the cases of children and possible wrongful removal, MN almost as a whole denies this could be possible and there was "obviously more to it". I'm not trying to start a bun fight but why are these mistakes accepted as happening but not removal of children are concerned?

fucks sake

fuckimng stupid stupid stupid UGH

This makes me so angry, I don't like SW bashing but in this instance --

why on earth do they do this? are they not fucking trained in the basics?

Read this today.

Obviously the social worker did not think. She is in hiding from a violent partner so of course you don't give the address to the violent ex partner!!!

Needs more training (though should be sacked,tarred and feathered).

SWs don't help themselves, do they??

A few months back, my close friends abusive ex partner was in court charged with assaulting her and the judge read out her refuge P.O. Box address to him

MsGame
from memory, it was a combination of high workload, lack of support/communication between agencies, but mostly the complete LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY that we see so often in public life.

There are lots of dedicated professionals out there. But some not so.
And the rotten apples (and the disorganised and dopey apples) spoil the crop and there is no accountability.
And public trust reduces and the profession feels undervalued and misunderstood and each side tries less hard to understand and help the other and so it goes on?

I used to Counsel women who were often trying to decide whether to take their cases to the Police / Courts. I always tried to be positive about it - as an option - knowing full well that there was a significant chance it could make things rather worse.

This was some time back, to be fair, but some things don't seem to have improved, sadly.

Christ that is terrible.

FFS, did that stupid woman not learn anything from safeguarding training. If she couldnt keep her personal feelings out of her job, then social work is not the career for her.