Social worker free to return to work after failures

A social worker who failed to inform police after an inmate threatened to ‘let shots out all over the place’ is free to return to work. Joanna Bates received a letter from the armed robber saying he would ‘do it all again’ when he had served his sentence, the Health and Care Professions Council was told. The panel found Bates had failed to escalate concerns to her manager or the police after the criminal threatened to commit serious crimes involving…