A 'DISHONEST' social worker has been struck off after being caught lying to bosses at Hammersmith and Fulham Council.

Jagroop Liddar joined the council in September 2008 but failed to tell them he had been sacked from Hounslow Council months earlier.

It had discovered a string of police cautions and convictions he had racked up between 2003 and 2008 and immediately dismissed him.

But when Liddar applied for his role at H&F Council, he hid his chequered past yet again and did not inform them about his impending misconduct hearing before the General Social Care Council (GSCC) conduct committee.

That hearing was held on March 19, 2010, at which he told members he was working as an estate agent and had not practised since leaving Hounslow.

He avoided being struck off and received a five-year admonishment for showing 'remorse' and fooled the committee into thinking he had acted in a 'responsible manner' by avoiding social care work since being sacked by the council.

In fact, an eagle-eyed colleague at H&F Council had spotted his name on the GSCC hearing list and Liddar was hauled before his bosses.

He continued his lies by telling them the hearing was about an invalid tax disc and that he had not been required to attend.

To back this up, he submitted a time-sheet for working on March 19 claiming he had visited a vulnerable child in Warrington.

In their findings, the GSCC blasted Liddar for his web of deceit and for potentially putting a young child at risk with his actions as they removed him from their Social Care Register at a central London hearing on November 4.

It said: “In the committee's judgement, [Liddar] has committed misconduct. It finds he engaged in a deliberate and persistent course of dishonest and inappropriate behaviour.

“While his actions and omissions were mainly calculated to conceal facts he did not wish to come to light, in one instance they had the effect of exposing a vulnerable service user to potential harm.

“The committee considers the appropriate sanction in this case is removal. This was serious and persistent misconduct that was fundamentally incompatible with continued practice as a social worker; and which would seriously damage public confidence in social care services.

“It was not satisfied that this was behaviour that was unlikely to be repeated; and noted (Liddar) had demonstrated no insight into his behaviour or remorse.”

Liddar, who refused to attend the hearing, has 28 days to appeal the decision.