A children's care worker faces a disciplinary inquiry after she allegedly called a six-year-old girl "sexy" and a "skank" before threatening to drown her cat.

Kelly Cameron, who was employed as a nursery assistant at Great Western Pre-Schools After School Club in Aberdeen at the time of the incidents, faces a conduct hearing in front of the Scottish Social Services Council.

The charge against her alleges that between August 20 and August 26, 2013, she called the young girl "sexy", a "mink" and a "skank" before stating she would put a cat belonging to her family "in the river and drown it".

She is further said to have said she would "remove her fish from its tank and dangle it by its tail".

Cameron is later said to have called a nine-year-old "ugly" and told a group of children to "shut up".

She is also said to have failed to inform her employers, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, that she was under investigation by the local council while employed by them as a nursery assistant between October 2014 and January 2016.

Cameron will face a conduct sub-committee hearing in Dundee in April. If the charges are proved she could be struck off.