Plans for a National Care Service in Scotland are to come under scrutiny from MSPs today.

Social care minister Kevin Stewart is to face question from the finance committee at Holyrood today.

The government has described the plans, which are scheduled for the end of the current Parliament, as one of the most ambitious reforms of public services since the creation of the National Health Service.

They are designed to deliver consistency and quality of care and support nationally and will make the Scottish government directly accountable for services.

Plans for a National Care Service in England have also been proposed by shadow secretary of state for health and social care Wes Streeting.

The plans for Scotland have come under fire from a number of stakeholders in the sector.

Robert Kilgour, chair of Renaissance Care and Independent Care Homes Scotland, has described the plans as “extremely vague” and “badly costed”.

Audit Scotland has said delivery of the service will be well above the £1.25 billion estimated by the government.

The Neurological Alliance of Scotland has said the proposals were being submitted “without blueprints, a schedule or a budget”.

Scottish Conservative shadow minister for mental health and social care, Craig Hoy, has described the plans as an “accident waiting to happen”.

GMB Scotland said there was a “clear lack of detail in the Bill”, adding the National Care Service must include a £15 per hour minimum wage and national minimum workforce terms and conditions.