Nursery worker struck off after sexually harassing colleagues and throwing foam bricks at children

A nursery worker has been removed from the register after a report found he sexually harassed colleagues and threw foam bricks at children.

Dean Gilchrist reportedly smacked a colleague on the bottom three times and commented on the size of another colleague’s breasts at the nursery in Glasgow.

He allegedly used racially offensive names to describe children of an ethnic minority in his care. Gilchrist reportedly also used offensive language when referring to children with additional needs.

In August 2023 the ex-senior nursery nurse was reported to have caused two children to cry by throwing foam bricks at them.

The Scottish Social Services Council stated Gilchrist had displayed a “pattern of serious and concerning behaviour”, concluding that removal from the register was the only viable option.

The report read: “Your behaviour is indicative of serious underlying attitudinal and values concerns and is behaviour which is fundamentally incompatible with registration in a trusted and caring profession.

“You deny the behaviour entirely. You show no insight, and given the pattern of behaviour, we have serious concerns that the behaviour would be repeated. If it was repeated it would place the vulnerable people in your care at risk of physical and emotional harm. It would also place your female colleagues at risk of emotional and
psychological harm.”