A social worker is facing a misconduct hearing after being accused of using fake documents in order to fiddle her student loan claim.
Amber Okonji will appear before the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service tomorrow, when she faces being struck off the register.
Ms Okonji, who was a registered social worker employed by Essex County Council for about three years, is alleged to have allowed an unauthorised user access to her laptop, which contained sensitive information relating to service users across the county.
The allegations say this was a breach of professional confidentiality on her behalf.
She is also accused of using the laptop to produce counterfeit documents or allowing someone else to use the computer to produce them.
The documents were then allegedly submitted to the Student Loans Company to support her student finance application.
The allegations state her actions were dishonest and so amount to misconduct.
Ms Okonji was dismissed from her role at Essex County Council in 2017 following County Hall’s own internal investigations.
The misconduct hearing will take place at the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service in London tomorrow.
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