An Aberdeen care worker who locked a schoolboy out the home he was staying – leaving him “badly sunburned” – has been struck off.
Kayleigh Coleman was accused of failing to look after the child, and went before professional watchdog the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) this week to face a string of allegations.
The hearing, which finished yesterday, heard that Coleman had not only locked the boy out the home he was staying in, was verbally aggressive towards him and left him alone overnight on several occasions.
She was also accused of having regularly had a controlled drug in her home that the child could access and telling him she was going to smoke a ‘joint’.
Coleman was further accused of refusing to give the youngster money sent to him by his mother and grandmother for Christmas and not allowing him to phone his family.
The alleged incidents were said to have happened between November 2012 and July last year.
Yesterday, the SSSC removed her from the register.
On July 14 2013, she was found in possession of the class A drug diamorphine.
The decision to remove Coleman, who had been registered as a student, was taken by a panel in Dundee.
The watchdog is expected to make a decision on another case involving a north-east care worker in the coming days.
Aberdeen City Council support worker Joseph Scoular is accused of trapping a youngster’s arm in a door and holding it there for “a prolonged period of time”.
In charges set out by the SSSC, it is also claimed that Mr Scoular made “negative comments” about the children in his care, saying they needed to “treat us with respect” and that young people these days “are getting worse”.
Mr Scoular no longer works for the local authority.
The allegations relate to January 1 and May 1, 2012.