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The High Court allows appeal from the Health and Social Care Professionals Council (CORU), and sets aside decision to cancel a social worker's registration, finding that the professional's conduct in forming an inappropriate relationship with a vulnerable patient was incompatible with practice, but that in the particular circumstances of the case, a suspension order with substantial additional conditions will sufficiently protect the public. The court recognised the social worker's diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and extensive mitigating factors, including a previously unblemished career and full cooperation with the investigation.
social worker, inappropriate relationship, vulnerable patient, suspension, registration, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mitigation, professional conduct, public protection, rehabilitation, High Court, Health and Social Care Professionals Council (CORU), professional boundaries, disciplinary proceedings, sanction, Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, Professional Conduct Committee (PCC), fitness to practice.
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