The Scottish Government has been accused of "spin" over a pay rise for social care staff, as a care home boss said it was already planned.
Robert Kilgour, the CEO of Renaissance Care, said his firm had already informed staff they would be raising pay by 3.3 per cent more than a week before the announcement was made by Health Secretary Jeane Freeman.
The Health Secretary said at a coronavirus briefing on Sunday that the increase in pay "will ensure all people providing adult social care receive the real living wage for every hour worked with immediate effect".
The move will be backdated to April 1. Kilgour, speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland show, said: "My reading of this is that it's pure spin, frankly, from the Scottish