Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
Arts therapist struck off after dishonesty and repeated failings affecting nine families
The panel found serious misconduct including retention of payments for services not delivered and practice during suspension. It ordered striking off, with an interim suspension covering the appeal period.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 10 August 2026 · Updated 22 September 2026
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Concerning Phoebe E Plant, arts therapist (Health and Care Professions Council AS017200).
Decision date: 10 August 2026 · Hearing started 13 July 2026 and ended 10 August 2026
In plain English
The panel ordered arts therapist Phoebe E Plant to be struck off after finding repeated dishonesty and other serious misconduct affecting nine families. Findings included keeping payments for services not provided, poor communication and continuing to practise while suspended. Some individual allegations were not proved. The panel found a continuing risk to the public and no evidence of meaningful insight or remediation. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period.
Charges
Allegations concerned missed or delayed therapy sessions, reports not provided, poor communication, dishonest retention of payments, consent and scope-of-practice failures, false claims of professional-association membership, and practice and use of a protected title during interim suspension.
Findings
The panel found a sustained pattern of serious misconduct affecting nine families over about sixteen months. This included dishonestly retaining payments for services not provided, poor communication, misleading BAAT membership claims, practising and using a protected title while suspended, failing to obtain informed consent and recommending medication and supplements beyond scope. Some individual allegations were not proved: eye-rolling, several specified communication failures, one alleged appointment cancellation, and retention of payment for an EHCP proposal; retention of the DLA-report payment was proved. It found impairment on both personal and public grounds, with no evidence of meaningful insight, remorse or remediation and a continuing repetition risk. It ordered striking off from the order's operative date and a separate interim suspension of up to 18 months for the appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
• The Registrant has not appeared before the HCPC before; and • There is some limited evidence that her clinical practice as an Arts Therapist can be good.
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