Social Work England committed ‘abuse of power’ in ‘punishing’ practitioner’s gender critical beliefs

This article draws significantly on Community Care Inform legal editor Tim Spencer-Lane’s analysis of the original tribunal judgment.
Social Work England carried out a “serious abuse of its power as a regulatory body” in allowing its fitness to practise (FTP) processes to be “subverted to punish and suppress” a practitioner’s protected gender critical beliefs.
That was the damning verdict of an employment tribunal in a judgment issued this week.
The ruling was