FM promises 'significant' public service reform - BBC News
Nicola Sturgeon outlines plans for the year ahead, with the "immediate priority" being to "lead Scotland out of the pandemic".
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has published her government's plans for the year ahead.

The programme for government includes establishing a National Care Service, reforms to the Gender Recognition Act and plans to extend childcare.

Ms Sturgeon also said the Scottish government would restart work on a "detailed prospectus" in advance of its goal of holding a referendum on independence by the end of 2023.

The opposition parties urged her to focus on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic rather than independence.

The main points of the programme include:
• A National Care Service Bill to implement reforms to the care service and a pledge that funding for social care will rise by at least £800m over the lifetime of the parliament
• A new system of "wraparound" childcare before and after school and during the holidays
• A collective pardon for miners convicted of various offences during strikes in the 1980s
• A fox control bill to strengthen the law on the use of dogs in hunts
• A new law for stronger regulation of the sale of fireworks

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