NICOLA Sturgeon revealed her agenda for the next year with plans to shake up health, education and justice.

Ms Sturgeon’s Programme for Government, the last before the next Scottish Parliament election, includes action on domestic violence, a better deal for kinship carers, reduction in Air Passenger Duty and a Scottish Social Security Bill.

Ms Sturgeon said the plan was not only for the next year but the next decade to improve infrastructure to allow businesses to grow and jobs to be created.

She said Kinship Carers will have their financial support increased to the same level as Foster Carers with the Scottish Government funding local councils to pay the extra amount required.

Ms Sturgeon said education was at the heart of her ambition for government and announced new testing structures to improve attainment

The number of children who receive Educational Maintenance Allowance will be increased from 35,000 to 57,000 to allow more to stay on in education and the amount of free childcare planned to increase to 100 hours by 2020.

The First Minister said an Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm Bill would introduce a statutory domestic abuse aggravation offence and a new offence of sharing intimate images, known as ‘revenge porn’.

On health she announced a £60m plan to transform primary care to be trialled at ten sites across the country.

Ms Sturgeon said the aim was to only have people admitted to hospital when they need to be.

She said it wold be a new way of working between district nurses, GPs health visitors and community rehabilitation teams.

A process to find the next chief constable of the Scottish Police Service has begun since sir Stephen House announced he would be stepping down in December and Ms Sturgeon said there would be new enhanced accountability and scrutiny at a local level.

The First Minister said the Programme for Government was “ambitious and reforming”.

She said: “It sets out how the Government will work now and in the long term to achieve our vision for Scotland’s future."

Labour leader Kezia Dugdale welcomed much of the programme and said the government would have labour’s support where ambition was shared.

However she said the record of attainment and gap between richest and poorest pupils was too wide.

She said “it should shame us as a nation.”

Ms Dugdale welcomed the plans for revenge porn but said more action was needed on domestic abuse and rape.

She added: “I would urge her (Ms Sturgeon) in the year ahead to give proper consideration to how we use the education system to teach young men and women about sexual consent.”