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Ayrshire care home worker is reprimanded for telling resident to "shut up"

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A support worker at an Ayrshire care home told an elderly resident to “shut up” when they asked her if they could go back to bed.

Mae Kennedy also told the vulnerable resident to “just sit there and shut up” during the incident at Ayr’s Windyhall care home LLP at Templeton House.

And her fitness to practise was “impaired” because of “misconduct” the industry regulator, the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), found.A fitness to practise hearing was told how the incident happened at the care home on or around April 11 last year.Kennedy was also deemed to have ‘failed’ to have shown ‘respect’ and ‘dignity’ to the resident.In an extract from the SSSC’s decision in the case, it said Kennedy’s behaviour had the “potential to cause

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