Arthur James Curson
Registration Number :
01/08/SWDT
Charge details
1. Failed where the role of social worker and friend existed to identify and fully appreciate at the outset and as events escalated, the potential conflict given his personal friendship with [CX] and given the actual or potential conflict between the interests of the three family members, namely [AX, BX CX] and to professionally and effectively manage the same,
2. Failed to properly identify the client for whom he was accepting responsibility and to clarify the terms of the engagement in writing so as to record the correct identity of the client,
3. Failed to prepare and maintain any adequate records of the services proposed and as they were supplied to the clients,
4. Arranged for material which was explained to him to be of a pornographic nature involving young children, to be deleted from the clients' computer,
Result/Orders/Penalties
1. Under section 83 (1)(b) that Mr Curson be censured in the following terms:
Arthur James Curson has been found by the Social Workers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal to have committed several serious breaches of the Code of Conduct for Social Workers. The Tribunal censures Mr Curson for failing, as a senior, experienced social worker, to meet and role model reasonable standards of professional conduct at all times.
2. Under section 83(l)(a)(ii) that the following restriction be placed on Mr Curson's practice:
that he undertake monthly supervision for a period of not less than two years and that he contact his supervisor promptly should a situation of potential or actual conflict of interest anse.
3. Under section 83(e) that Mr Curson pay $2500 of the costs and expenses of and incidental to the inquiry made by CAC, and the prosecution of the charge by the CAC; and $2500 towards the costs of the hearing by the Tribunal.
Last updated
18 August 2026