Misconduct alleged at kids’ school
Social care panel probe
A member of staff at a highly respected residential children’s school is facing dishonesty and misconduct allegations.
The National Autistic Society run Daldorch House, Catrine has built a case against Lauren Lindsay.
Miss Lindsay was a residential child care worker at Daldorch, which caters for around 24 autistic children from aged 8.
The school offers fully individual care and education to provide pupils with a stepping stone into a positive future.
It is the only year round residential and day care school in Scotland for autistic youngsters and is adored by pupils and parents.
Miss Lindsay has been asked to appear before a public panel in Dundee next week.
A three- day hearing run by the Scottish Social Services Council is expected to end on Wednesday. She is accused of incidents while she was at work in August 2015.
Papers say she forged her colleague “ZZ’s” signature on a shift swap form on or about August 9.
The SSSC say that amounts to dishonesty.
On August 17 she was on an outing in the community with a 19- year- old pupil.
Miss Lindsay is accused of “failing to change AA when he had urinated himself.”
And the papers add: “You stated to your colleague ZZ ‘ if AA wants to pee himself when he is off campus he’ll need to learn he can’t do that’ or words to that effect.”
She is further accused of failing to follow her colleague’s request to call an emergency vehicle and using her mobile phone instead of changing her young charge.
The allegations conclude: “Your fitness to practice is impaired because of your misconduct.”
Failing to change a pupil when he had urinated