THE STUC has slammed a lack of detail on SNP-Green Scottish government plans for a National Care Service (NCS) as “unacceptable.”

STUC general secretary Roz Foyer made the remarks after Holyrood’s health, social care and sport committee reported on Thursday that the “Scottish government has so far been unable to articulate and communicate a model of how the proposed NCS would operate.”

It added: “The lack of detail at this stage on what that framework will look like is concerning.”

The proposal to bring all Scottish social care under one body will face its first parliamentary vote next week.

Ms Foyer said: “It remains firmly unacceptable that at this stage, Scotland’s workers still have no clarity on how a national care service will operate in practice nor the overall cost of the project.

“A new national care service must be one that put workers and service users before profit.

“Social care staff are the lifeblood of our community and residential care system, they need the government to take action to support them now.

“We value them. We need the Scottish government to value them too.”