Dirty house jibe gets social worker struck off

A social worker has been kicked out of the profession for telling a single mum in a text: ‘We remove kids from houses cleaner than yours’. Elaine Marie Fowler left the woman fearing her children would be taken away and she raised her concerns at a support group on June 24, 2015. Fowler, who was employed by Knowsley Council, Merseyside, began the text with the warning: ‘Things are getting serious babe’. She then described her own difficulties bringing children up…