# Case (Social worker removed). Elaine Lillian McDowell \[2022\] MHLO 5 (SWE)

**URL:** <https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/case-social-worker-removed-elaine-lillian-mcdowell-2022-mhlo-5-swe/1401>\
**Category:** MHLO updates\
**Created:** [6 December 2022 18:10 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/case-social-worker-removed-elaine-lillian-mcdowell-2022-mhlo-5-swe/1401 "2022-12-06T18:10:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [6 December 2022 18:10 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/case-social-worker-removed-elaine-lillian-mcdowell-2022-mhlo-5-swe/1401/1 "2022-12-06T18:10:47Z")

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— The social worker had carried out an inappropriate emergency transfer of a resident from extra-care housing, where the resident had been happy, to a nursing home, where she was less happy, without consulting staff, and without even allowing the resident time to finish her meal; had, in an attempt to justify that decision, made false records, including that a capacity assessment and best interests decision had taken place and that family members were in support; had visited the resident too frequently; had attempted to obtain the resident's PIN number; had allowed her own family members to be paid by the resident, and had dishonestly denied that a person she allowed to deliver support was her daughter. The Social Work England fitness to practice panel imposed an 18-month interim suspension order to cover the appeal period (the social worker had not so far participated) and a removal order to take effect thereafter.

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Full details available at: [https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Elaine\_Lillian\_McDowell\_(2022)\_MHLO\_5\_(SWE)?id=061222-1759](https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Elaine_Lillian_McDowell_(2022)_MHLO_5_(SWE)?id=061222-1759)