Detectives are hunting a bogus social worker after she struck for the second time in a week in Basildon claiming to be carrying out a survey on children.

Police issued warnbings after a woman posing as a social worker visited the Felmores estate.

Yesterday (Monday) in Langford Grove a woman, saying she was from the health authority, knocked at a home claiming to be carrying out a TV survey on toddlers.

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