A childcare worker who embezzled a four-figure sum from the kids’ club where she worked is to face a hearing over her conduct.
Fiona Soutar, 35, former assistant manager at Carlogie Fun Club, will appear before a Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) panel in Dundee today and tomorrow after being convicted of embezzlement.
At Forfar Sheriff Court in March, she admitted stealing £1,370 from the Carlogie Primary School club in Carnoustie.
She was sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid work and a compensation order was made for the money.
Woman who embezzled £1,370 sum from Angus after school club brought the money to court
Defence agent Ian Myles said at the time it had been a “distressing and difficult situation”.
Sheriff Pino Di Emidio said: “It is plain to me that aside from anything I do, you have, to an extent, already been punished.”
The offence was committed between October 2015 and March last year, while Soutar was working at the after-school club as an assistant manager.
She is no longer employed by the club.
The SSSC is due to argue that Soutar’s fitness to practise is impaired as a result of her conviction.
The day care practitioner could be subject to a number of sanctions, ranging from warnings on her registration to being struck off the register altogether.
The Carlogie Fun Club operates at the Angus primary school but is run independently by a charitable committee.
SSSC hearings are held at Compass House in Dundee’s Riverside Drive and aim to assess whether a worker’s fitness to practise is still impaired at the time of the hearing.