Disciplinary meeting hears Rossie unit worker suffered racist abuse

An Angus childcare worker who held a youngster in a neck lock was subjected to racist verbal abuse just before the incident.

Mark Whiting was found by the Scottish Social Services Council to be guilty of misconduct while working at Rossie Young People’s Trust in Montrose.

He faced a charge that on June 22 2012, while employed there as a residential childcare worker, he restrained a young person “on his own when the situation did not merit a single-worker restraint”.

At a hearing, SSSC chiefs found there was evidence of Whiting committing misconduct within the organisation’s own rules.

As a result, the SSSC decided to impose a warning on Mr Whiting’s registration for a period of 18 months.

However, the council found a number of factors in Mr Whiting’s favour saying that shortly before the incident, he had been subjected to physical abuse and had sustained “personal, discriminatory and racist verbal abuse”.