A social worker with Kent County Council has been struck off the Health and Care Professions Council after being sacked for gross misconduct. Robert Atkinson, who worked as a specialist case manager working with older people in west Kent, was dismissed by the county council in October 2014 after being found to have fiddled his expenses. Now he has been kicked off the independent regulator which keeps a register for 16 different health and care professions. It only registers people who meet the standards it sets for their training, professional skills, behaviour and health.
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