{"id":214977,"date":"2025-06-26T04:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214977\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T04:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:40:11","slug":"machynlleth-social-worker-banned-by-social-care-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214977\/","title":{"rendered":"Machynlleth social worker banned by Social Care Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  In a Social Care Wales hearing, Oliver Hughes, who worked for Mencap Cymru in the Machynlleth area, was banned from being a social worker in Wales after he admitted to assaulting his then girlfriend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a fitness to practice hearing held today (June 25) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/news\/24916656.powys-care-worker-financially-abused-vulnerable-adults\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Care Wales<\/a>, the chair of the disciplinary panel, Byron Davies said the panel had been \u201cshocked and troubled\u201d by Hughes\u2019 behaviour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was heard that in an incident in January, Hughes attacked his then girlfriend from behind during an argument,\u00a0dragging\u00a0her to the floor, leading to a cut on her leg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was heard that, when\u00a0she got up, Hughes punched her in the face. After this she then fled to the nearest shop for safety and the shopkeeper had to restrain Hughes to stop him from\u00a0entering, the hearing was told.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hughes later pleaded guilty to a charge of assault by beating in a hearing at Aberystwyth Magistrates Court on March 12.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The hearing took place in Hughes\u2019 absence, and it was heard that in a letter to Social Care Wales claimed he had \u201conly plead guilty as he had been advised to do so by his solicitor\u201d and that he he had \u201cturned his life around since the incident\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Help support trusted local news<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sign up for a digital subscription now:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.countytimes.co.uk\/subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As a digital subscriber you will get\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unlimited access to the\u00a0County Times\u00a0website\n  <\/li>\n<li>Advert-light access\n  <\/li>\n<li>Reader rewards\n  <\/li>\n<li>Full access to our app\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  He also \u201cquestioned why the process was continuing\u201d and that \u201che had no intention of returning to social care\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The panel ruled that the accusation was proven due to him being found guilty of the charge of assault by beating and that he should be removed from the social care register, meaning Hughes cannot practice as a social worker in a regulated workplace in Wales.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Davies said that the panel found Hughes\u2019 conduct \u201chad breached a fundamental tenant of the profession\u201d and that his \u201cintegrity cannot be relied upon\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He added that the panel were troubled that \u201cMr Hughes failed to demonstrate insight\u201d into his behaviour and showed \u201cno regret or remorse\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a Social Care Wales hearing, Oliver Hughes, who worked for Mencap Cymru in the Machynlleth area, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-214977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747829317480853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}