Drunk social worker ‘offered detoxed client whiskey and magic mushrooms’

A SOCIAL worker, who had helped a client through detox, offered to buy him a drink in a pub, a misconduct hearing was told yesterday.

Craig McLoughlin, who was “hammered” and “off his head”, also offered the man magic mushrooms and asked him for cannabis and sleeping tablets, a committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) in London was told.

McLoughlin, aged 54, from Sheffield, was employed by the city council to work for the Sheffield Care Trust in mental health services from September 13, 2004, to March 31, 2005, and he worked in the north sector community health team, said Andrew Swan, representing the GSCC.