An Ayrshire care residence supervisor has been struck off after swindling money from a boys soccer membership.
Louise Williams, who beforehand labored at Fullarton Care Residence in Irvine, embezzled £549.71 whereas she was treasurer of an Below 14s workforce.
She was convicted of the offence at Kilmarnock Sheriff Courtroom on January 18 this 12 months, prompting care regulator, the Scottish Social Providers Council (SSCC), to open proceedings in opposition to her.
The SSSC discovered that in or round February 2020, whereas employed at Fullarton, Williams failed to tell them she had been charged by Police Scotland in reference to the embezzlement.
And after Williams handed up the chance to have her case heard by a Health to Practise Panel, the watchdog determined the one applicable sanction was to take away her from their register from Might 26.
The SSSC stated in a choice discover: "You have got been convicted of embezzlement whereas appearing as treasurer of a kids’s soccer membership.
"Being convicted of a criminal offense of dishonesty whereas appearing ready of belief calls into query your suitability to work as a social companies employee, because it demonstrates that you're keen to abuse the belief positioned in you in your personal monetary acquire.
"Your actions induced monetary hurt and will have induced emotional hurt. Your behaviour breaches the belief and confidence positioned in you as a social companies employee.
"By failing to speak your felony cost to the SSSC, you prevented the SSSC from finishing up the suitable danger evaluation to evaluate whether or not motion wanted to be taken in respect of your registration with the SSSC in gentle of the felony cost in opposition to you.
"Your behaviour might have probably positioned customers of companies and the broader public at an elevated danger of hurt."
The SSSC acknowledged the embezzlement was an remoted incident that befell in February 2018 however stated Williams' behaviour was "essentially incompatible with the values of the occupation".
Additionally they acknowledged there was no proof of any perception, remorse or reflection and subsequently a danger of comparable behaviour being repeated.
The regulator stated no different sanction was applicable given the intense nature of occasions.
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