A SOCIAL worker who was embroiled in a county council care scandal has been removed from the official register.

Diane Constance Cleasby, from Burnley, was the manager for a support and assessment team over which serious concerns were raised in 2012.

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The Health and Care Professions Council, at a previous hearing, was told that a child who suffered a fractured skull had been placed back with the grandparents who may have caused the injury.

Cleasby was also held responsible over another case where child pornography was said to have been found on a home computer after a tip-off but not properly acted upon.

Later it was found that two children in the family had been abused by their father, a conduct and competence committee panel was told.

Cleasby was suspended from her Lancashire County Council role in 2012 and the HCPC later barred her from practising for 12 months. The year-long suspension was extended for another 12-month period in 2016.

A HCPC spokesman described the original offences, found proved, as 'extremely serious, putting service users at risk of harm'.

“They were a clear breach of the standards expected of a social worker,” he added.

Cleasby, who was not at the London hearing, has agreed to voluntary erasure from the social work register, which will prevent her from working in the profession in future.

Another two social workers from the Blackburn area were also the subject of formal proceedings over the same matters.

One was given a 12-month caution and the other, who had undergone safeguarding training, was allowed to continue to practice, as her fitness to practice was not found to be impaired.