A POWYS care home manager with more than 30 years’ experience has kept her job but will be closely monitored for a year after appearing at a disciplinary hearing this week. Melanie Christopher appeared before a Social Care Wales panel on Monday and Tuesday, February 22-23, which found that her fitness to practice is currently impaired. It follows Ms Christopher receiving a 10-month prison sentence at Swansea Crown Court in January 2020 after she admitted throwing a wine glass at a colleague during a staff party in a pub. The fitness to practise panel was told that Ms Christopher, who manages the Angorfa Residential Home in Coelbren in South Powys, could not remember the September 27, 2019, incident, which happened at the Lamb and Flag pub in Glynneath, and said she might have suffered temporary amnesia.
North Wales children s home worker struck off after boasting about fantasies of sex with young girls
Thomas Cross, 28, posed a high risk to children and needed to be banned from the profession, the Social Care Wales panel heard
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image captionMessages sent by Mr Cross detailed his fantasies and were passed to the police
A children s care home worker told people he fantasised in graphic terms about having sex with young girls, a fitness to practise hearing has found.
A three-person Social Care Wales panel found eight charges against Thomas Philip Cross proved.
Mr Cross, 28, was a residential carer at a home for vulnerable boys of secondary school age from 2018.
He has been issued with a removal order and will no long be able to work in regulated social care in Wales.
Mr Cross was already subject to an interim order preventing him from carrying out such work because of the case against him and the disposal is the strictest measure that can be imposed.