Scottish Labour is to blame the SNP Government for fuelling a “crisis” in social care .

The party is set to use a parliamentary debate on Wednesday to accuse the Scottish Government of “pushing social care to the brink of collapse” and “piling pressure on other public services”.

Ahead of the debate, Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie claimed that Scotland’s health and social care partnerships currently have an estimated budget blackhole of nearly half a billion pounds.

She said the pressures are forcing many to make cuts to key services for some of Scotland’s “most vulnerable people”.

For example, she said Charles McGarvey, a constituent who became quadriplegic following an accident, was informed that the specialist teams that support him no longer exist.

Baillie said he wa

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