Two north-east care workers have been accused of a string of allegations about the way they treated youngsters.
Kayleigh Coleman allegedly locked a boy out of the home where he was staying, leaving him “badly sunburned”, and is also accused of being verbally aggressive towards him and leaving him alone overnight on several occasions.
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) will consider her case next week, when they will also hear allegations that she did not let him phone his family from where he was staying and that she did not give him money sent by his mother and grandmother for Christmas.
The alleged incidents were said to have happened between November 2012 and July last year.
Meanwhile, 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”.
At one children’s hearing, he is accused of saying “we just work with whatever comes through the door” in front of the youngster he was there to represent.
He is also accused of making “negative and discriminatory” comments to external inspectors about his colleagues, saying that only people who have had children should be allowed to work in homes because other workers do not appreciate “the importance of boundaries and consequences”.
A spokesman for Aberdeen City Council last night revealed that Mr Scoular no longer works for the local authority.
The allegations relate to January 1 and May 1, 2012.
A spokesman for the watchdog body said: “The conduct sub-committee will consider whether the charge is proven and, if proven, whether the charge constitutes misconduct and whether the worker has breached the SSSC code of practice for social service workers.”
Both will appear in front of separate SSSC panels in Dundee at the end of the month.