A social worker who stole £10,000 from a man she had met when he was a client has been handed a suspended prison sentence.
Tabitha Hall was a senior social worker, responsible for managing supervisors who run social workers in the north of the county.
As part of that role, she worked with the man when he was a client but after his social care was stopped, she continued to visit him weekly without any authority.
The man then employed a personal assistant to help him and he told her that Hall had taken two separate amounts of £5,000 from his bank account and transferred it to hers.
An investigation was launched with Hall being suspended from her role. Police were called and in an interview, Hall told officers that she continued to see the man as his unofficial social worker and friend.
She said the first £5,000 she took was to pay for her child’s new boiler and the second was because her debt was getting out of hand so she asked to extend the ‘loan’.
In a victim impact statement, the man said: “I am struggling to sleep due to this happening to me and my anxiety level is now very high.
“I trusted her and she was my friend. She has let me down and betrayed me.”
Hall, 42, of Springbank Road, Chesterfield, was subsequently charged with fraud by abuse of position.
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