A NURSERY manageress who called a four-year-old child in her care a “wee gay boy” has been struck off.

Margaret Morrison was a manager at the Hummingbird House Nursery in Dunblane, Perthshire, which is now Dunblane Nature Kndergarten, when the incident took place in 2011.

After a hearing of the Scottish Social Services Council’s Conduct Sub-committee in Dundee, Mrs Morrison was found to have breached the breached the Scottish Social Services Council Code of Practice by making the “inappropriate” comment about the child to a colleague, Adele Lyon, in the nursery’s Bumblebee Room.

When Ms Lyon said, “You can’t say that”, the committee found that Mrs Morrison responded, “Well he is”.

No child in the Nursery was reported to have heard the comment.

In a ruling, the sub committee also found that in June 2014 Mrs Morrison failed to treat a young colleague with dignity and respect and and told an apprentice: “Your days are numbered”.

It was also found that on 25 June 2013, Mrs Morrison allowed her own 15 year old daughter to look after children at the nursery. She also allowed one room to operate outwith the required staff to child ratio.