A CARE home worker has been charged with criminal neglect after a teenager with learning difficulties was scalded in a bath.

Ebenezer Adebisi, 27, of Forest Road, Walthamstow, is due to join Sharon Johnson, 45, of Charnwood Street, Hackney, before magistrates in Canterbury, Kent, on March 19.

Police launched an investigation after a 19-year-old man was injured at the a residential care home for adults with learning difficulties in Whistable, Kent.

After the incident in November last year the man spent two weeks in a specialist burns unit.

Mr Adebisi and Ms Johnson have been charged under Section 44 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.