Jaymie-Lee Fines
Introduction
Jaymie-Lee Fines is an arts therapist who has been suspended from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) register over findings arising from a May 2021 job application on which she answered “no” when asked whether her conduct in relation to children had ever been a cause for concern or investigation — while she was under an ongoing HCPC investigation and a LADO investigation, both relating to her professional boundaries with a young person. Her answer was found dishonest and her misconduct proved. A June 2025 review panel extended her suspension by twelve months in her absence, and a July 2026 panel, sitting in private to protect health and private-life information, extended it by a further six months. The case appears on MedicWatch’s independent record of regulator determinations and on the official HCPTS hearings site.
Background Information
Fines worked as a registered arts therapist, a profession whose casework regularly brings practitioners into contact with children and young people. By spring 2021 she was the subject of two parallel investigations concerning her conduct with Young Person A: an ongoing HCPC investigation into a failure to maintain professional boundaries, and an investigation under the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) process, which handles allegations against people who work with children. On or around 1 May 2021, applying for a post as a Mental Health Practitioner with Organisation A, she was asked directly whether her conduct in relation to children had ever been a cause for concern or investigation, including workplace investigations. She answered no.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Answered “no” to a children-conduct screening question while under two live investigations. The answer was found dishonest; the employer would have had no other way to learn of the open cases.
The allegation was that this answer was untrue in two respects — the live HCPC investigation and the LADO investigation — and that it was dishonest, amounting to misconduct impairing her fitness to practise. The stakes of the question were concrete: an employer screening for work touching child welfare has no independent route to learn of an open regulatory or LADO inquiry, and depends entirely on the honesty of the applicant. The finding against Fines went to that dependency directly.
At the June 2025 review the panel considered her written reflective statement in her absence — having found she had voluntarily absented herself — and directed that her registration remain suspended for a further twelve months when the existing order expired. The panel did not set out current mitigating or aggravating factors in its published decision.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The dishonesty finding places Fines in the category of registrants whose case centres not on clinical care but on the integrity of the safety systems around children: both investigations were open and known to her at the moment she denied them in writing. Both subsequent review panels have kept the suspension in place — the July 2026 panel extending it by six months from 5 July 2026, with a further review required before the order expires on 5 January 2027. She is listed on MedicWatch’s public suspensions list among suspended allied-health practitioners.
Current Status
Fines remains suspended from the HCPC register. The July 2026 review was conducted wholly in private, because health and private-life matters could not practicably be separated from the hearing, and its published decision gives the operative order and procedural reasons without the substantive review reasoning; the page does not assert findings from that private reasoning. The suspension runs to 5 January 2027 at the latest, when a further review must take place. Both reviews proceeded in her absence on her written reflective statements.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Fines has been barred from registered arts-therapy practice through successive suspension orders since the dishonesty finding, and the open question for the January 2027 review panel is the same one the 2026 panel could not resolve in public: whether her reflection has produced the insight the original finding demands. An arts therapist found to have concealed child-conduct investigations from a prospective employer faces a register that treats the concealment itself as the harm. Her determinations remain permanently searchable on the official hearings site and on independent records such as MedicWatch.