A child care worker from Monmouthshire has been struck off for using marajuana while on duty, the Care Council for Wales has confirmed.

Leighton Maxwell Rosser, formerly employed by Greenfields Adolescent Development Ltd in Usk, has been removed from the Register of Social Care Workers after being found guilty of misconduct.

Mr Rosser breached the Code of Practice for Social Care Workers by taking an illegal substance while accompanying a teenager and his girlfriend on a trip to Bristol.

A conduct committee for the Care Council for Wales heard how he had driven the teenagers back from a concert in Bristol and had attended a residential care home while under the influence of an illegal substance, during a hearing in Cardiff.

The committee found Mr Rosser had used marijuana while on duty for his employer and had received a police caution for the possession of cannabis in 2003.

It was decided Mr Rosser's drug use could have "potential consequences for service users, members of the public, and for the registrant himself".

A spokesperson for the Care Council for Wales said: "We have a duty to maintain confidence in social care services and it is within the public interest to send a clear message that such misconduct requires appropriate sanction."

Mr Rosser will no longer be able to practice as a residential child care worker in Wales.