A child development officer who performed a Nazi salute in front of nursery children has been ordered to be struck off.

Sharon McIndoe made the gesture in front of children as young as two after a colleague suggested she stop the youngsters playing with a block of wood with nails in it.

McIndoe, who was employed by Glasgow City Council, also told a young boy in her care: "If I ever see you putting glitter in the glue again, I'm going to burn your daddy's shop down."

She was further found to have dragged a four-year-old boy in her care across a room, telling him: "Maybe Santa won't bring you anything at all with your whole attitude".

A hearing of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)'s conduct sub-committee, meeting in Dundee, found "clear evidence" McIndoe verbally abused children, threatened colleagues, and performed the Nazi salute.

She was also found to have put children at emotional and physical risk during a period between August 2006 and August 2012.

The committee said McIndoe breached the SSSC's Code of Practice by making the threats at the Buchlyvie Nursery in Easterhouse, where she worked, in the run up to Christmas 2012, and the council's Acredyke Nursery in Robroyston, where she also worked.

The hearing, in Dundee, also heard McIndoe told one boy that his drawings were "rubbish" and repeatedly asked a girl, when looking at her drawings, "where are their hands?" and "where are their eyes?".

She told another child at Acredyke, in the presence of other children, "I don't know what you are greeting for, when you go to school someone will bop you", and mocked a child for her vegetarianism.

McIndoe was also found to have pushed or kicked a bike into a wall while a child was sitting on it. She also behaved in a verbally abusive and threatening manner towards other colleagues at Acredyke, saying things such as: "I will take her down", "I'm going to stab her", "I'm gonnae batter her before I go".

In a ruling published on Wednesday, the sub-committee said: "Your communication with the children in your care and with your colleagues was wholly inappropriate."

The committee ordered that McIndoe's name be removed from the register for Practitioners in Day Care of Children Services as a "necessary, fair and proportionate sanction".

McIndoe, who faced a total of 22 charges, has 14 days within which to appeal to a sheriff.