Top social worker in benefits scam

A former ‘Social Worker of the Year’ has been suspended for a year for a £5,000 benefits scam. Christine Fawcett backed up her husband’s false claims that he was living alone when they shared the same home. Fawcett, who worked with adults with learning difficulties at Wakefield Council, received bogus payments totalling £5135 in 2014. She did not declare her husband had been overpaid in housing benefit when he lied and was being financially supported by her, the Health and…