Michaela Aydin

Introduction

Michaela Aydin is a care worker from Dunfermline who was removed from the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) register after failing to turn up to a vulnerable client’s night shift, leaving the client without care, and then asking the client to “stay quiet” about the missing shift. Aydin, who was employed as a coordinator by Kingdom Support and Care CIC in Fife, was struck off after the SSSC found her fitness to practise impaired, citing unreliability, dishonesty and a lack of insight, and removed her entry from the register.

Background Information

Ayin worked as a coordinator for Kingdom Support and Care CIC, a care provider operating in Fife. The incident took place in or around March 17 and 18, 2023, when she was assigned to a night shift supporting a vulnerable client. The case, as reported, turned not just on the missed shift itself but on what happened afterwards: the messages she sent to the client in the days that followed.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against Aydin were made by the SSSC, the regulatory body responsible for social service workers in Scotland, following its investigation; the quoted statements are the regulator’s own. They are regulatory findings on the civil standard, not criminal convictions, and no criminal proceedings were reported.

After failing to attend the shift and being suspended, Aydin sent the client messages asking them to “stay quiet” about the missing shift, saying she was “going to be in trouble” and asking if the client had seen or spoken to anyone. She also asked the client to say, when asked, that it was their own error on the rota — in effect, to shift responsibility for the missed care onto the client themselves. The client was left without care on the night in question.

On Aydin’s actions, the SSSC stated: “Your fitness to practise is impaired because social service workers are expected to be reliable and dependable…have a responsibility to be honest and trustworthy…and your actions raise concerns about your attitude and values.” The regulator went on: “Given your lack of insight and engagement, the SSSC considers that there is a risk of repetition of the same or similar behaviour if you were to continue working in the profession.” It added: “If the same or similar behaviour were to be repeated, vulnerable people could be placed at a risk of harm.”

Public Reaction and Consequences

The SSSC also claimed that Aydin did not co-operate with its investigation — a factor that fed directly into the regulator’s risk assessment. After referring to its Decisions Guidance, the decision was made to impose a Removal Order, removing Aydin’s entry from the SSSC Register. The sanction was imposed on the combined grounds of the unreliability of missing the shift, the dishonesty of the attempted cover-up, and the absence of insight or engagement that might have supported a lesser outcome.

The case was reported by the Dunfermline Press under a headline describing a care worker struck off for missing a shift, with the report noting she was struck off for being “unreliable and dishonest”.

Current Status

Aydin is removed from the SSSC register and cannot work in any role in Scotland that requires social care registration. The removal rests on the panel’s findings that she missed the shift, then pressured the vulnerable client to conceal it and misattribute the failure, and afterwards declined to engage with the regulator’s investigation. No appeal against the removal was reported in the sources covering the case.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The removal order ended Aydin’s career in registered social care. The case is a study in how a single reliability failure becomes a register-removal matter through the response to it: the SSSC’s decision tied the dishonesty of asking the client to “stay quiet” and to take blame for the rota error directly to her attitude and values, and treated her lack of insight and engagement as proof that the risk of repetition was live. For a coordinator role — a position carrying scheduling responsibility for other people’s care — the finding that she attempted to engineer a vulnerable client into covering for her own absence was treated as disqualifying.