A Lanarkshire carer has received a warning after lying about working a shift and failing to provide support for a service user.
Daniel Hutton was employed as a Support Worker in Airdrie when the incidents occurred in July 2021.
He was found to have failed to attend a shift for a service user and later falsely filled in a timesheet claiming to have worked a shift.
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Mr Hutton also sent a text message to the service user saying "Right that c*** thinks we're away so don’t answer the door till at least 2pm".
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has now slapped him with a warning on his registration for 36 months following the incident.
The SSSC decision condemned Mr Hutton's "dishonesty" and added he had "exploited" the service user.
The report reads: "You failed to attend your required shift to support service user AA. You then told AA not to answer the door in case a manager came to check up as you had told the manager you were with the service user in another town and referred to the manager by a derogatory term. You also claimed on your timesheet that you had worked the required shift when you had not.
"You failed to honour your work commitments and your actions left service user AA without support. You also exploited AA by asking AA to help you evade detection for not attending your shift. You failed to treat your colleague with respect and falsely completed your timesheet in a further attempt to conceal your failure to attend your shift. Your actions amount to dishonesty and call into question your suitability to work in the care sector."
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