If you're just joining us, here's a brief reminder of what happened in FMQs today.

• the Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross asked about reports that 800 teachers' jobs would be cut by Glasgow City Council
• The first minister argued councils were getting more cash this year and defended her education secretary
• The issue was raised again from the backbenches when a Tory MSP asked about the teachers' strikes
• Nicola Sturgeon insisted negotiations were ongoing
• The "social care crisis" was raised by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, who called for social care funding to be focused on the frontline and wages to be increased to £12 per hour, rising to £15
• Sturgeon said the current £10.90 rate being paid to social care staff is the same as the rate paid by the Labour government in Wales

That's all from our live coverage of FMQs. Thank you for joining us.

Holyrood 'divided and febrile' with two protests from the gallerypublished at 12:58 Greenwich Mean Time 19 January 2023

12:58 GMT 19 January 2023

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Protests are a common sight outside the Scottish Parliament, with Holyrood a frequent and obvious focal point for political campaigning.

But they are also becoming a weekly feature of First Minister’s Questions. The last two weeks have seen climate protestors shouting questions of their own from the public gallery.

The parliament doesn’t like to encourage such things, meaning the cameras cut off as soon as it’s clear proceedings have been disrupted.

The temperature of the debate between the political benches shows that there is no shortage of contentious issues washing around Scottish politics at the moment.

Indeed, during a point of order following First Minister’s Questions - which involved the Tories accusing Green minister Lorna Slater of misleading parliament - another protest kicked off on the topic of gender.

That combination underscores just how divided and febrile things are at Holyrood right now.

Willie Rennie raises the issue of pupil-on-pupil violence in Waid Academy in his constituency.

The Lib Dem MSP asks what the Scottish government is doing to tackle the problem.

The first minister says she has not watched the social media video of a female pupil attacking another raised by Rennie, but she pledges to do so.

She insists: "Violence is never acceptable."

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Labour MSP Jackie Baillie says a woman in her constituency has waited more than a year for an appointment after a smear test identified an abnormality in her colposcopy results.

She says waiting times for colposcopies are going up, risking women's health.

Sturgeon says patients requiring urgent tests "are seen quickly" and there is "significant investment" in services providing diagnostic tests and follow-up treatments.

She says the government prioritises women's health and a women's health champion will soon be appointed by the government.

Teachers are launching a fresh wave of rolling strikes across Scotland as a union leader warned there was no end in sight to the current pay dispute.

Over the next 16 days the action will affect two local authorities a day, starting on Monday with Glasgow and East Lothian.

The Educational Institute of Scotland last week announced it would be followed by 22 extra days of strikes.

Ministers and councils have said a requested 10% pay rise is unaffordable.

The current 5% offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.

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• Scottish teachers announce 22 more days of strikes
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• Prelims rescheduled as secondary teachers strike

Stephen Kerr echoes the views of his party leader, Douglas Ross, and also raises the issue of the teachers' strike.

The Tory MSP asks what steps the government has taken to bring the industrial action to an end.

The first minister replies her government values public sector workers and seeks fair pay deals.

Sturgeon tells the chamber there is still a gap between what the unions are asking for and what is affordable, but negotiations continue.

Kerr says there is "chaos" in education and argues the education secretary shows no energy to get involved, but this leads to the FM accusing the Tories of "staggering hypocrisy".

Sarwar calls for solutions to the 'social care crisis'published at 12:38 Greenwich Mean Time 19 January 2023

12:38 GMT 19 January 2023

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Social care is going to be one of the big talking points at Holyrood this year, given that legislation is due to be passed to start setting up a National Care Service.

Mr Sarwar sought to tie that future topic into the one he has been hammering away at over the whole of the winter.

Given the questions about health and social care are on a similar theme most weeks, there is an air of familiarity about some of the responses.

Ms Sturgeon pointed out how Labour is doing running similar services in Wales; Mark Drakeford must feel his ears burning at 12:20 every Thursday.

This comes back to the issue of budgets as well. Opposition members question the outlay on setting up a big new service at this time of belt-tightening, and that’s something we’re likely to hear a lot more about this term.

And that means Ms Sturgeon’s response was a familiar one too – that the Scottish government only has so much money to allocate when it comes to pay deals.

Sarwar now calls on the Scottish government to pause the roll-out of the National Care Service, which he says will cost to set up £1.3bn.

He urges the first minister to "listen to workers on the front line" and halt plans to introduce a bill at Holyrood.

Sturgeon accuses Labour of an "irresponsible" approach to budgeting by calling for the government to halt future plans to free up money in the current financial year.

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Sarwar says the pay increase for social care staff will only amount to 3.8%. This comes at a time when inflation is running at 10.5%.

NHS staff have been offered an average pay rise of 7.5%.

The Scottish Labour leader says more than 70% of care home services and care homes are reporting vacancies, with staff quitting the sector for better-paying jobs at supermarkets.

He calls for an immediate pay increase to £12 per hour, rising to £15, for social care workers.

Sturgeon says the current £10.90 rate is the same as the rate paid by the Labour government in Wales.

She says the government intends to go further but to fund an increase to £15 per hour for all social care staff would cost up to £1.75bn.

Anas Sarwar is up next and he leads on the crisis in social care.

He says workers have told him of fears of burnout and an inability to provide appropriate care to patients.

The Scottish Labour leader says the problem is "over a decade in the making", with staff resigning or retiring early.

Sturgeon says the government is providing £100m of additional funding in April this year to uplift pay for those in the social care sector.

Tory leader 'spies an opportunity' around educationpublished at 12:29 Greenwich Mean Time 19 January 2023

12:29 GMT 19 January 2023

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Douglas Ross has picked up on a fairly topical issue, given we are in the thick of council budget season.

Throw in the fact it involves education – a core devolved issue and famously Ms Sturgeon’s top priority – and an SNP council, and you can see why the Tory leader has spied an opportunity.

There is little jeopardy over whether the government can pass its budget allocations, in the SNP-Green partnership era.

But with tough decisions being taken in council chambers, stories always abound at this time of year of local services being trimmed. Mr Ross has sought to place that squarely at the first minister’s door, given her government holds the purse-strings.

Of course, Ms Sturgeon’s riposte is that her own budgets are constrained by the actions of the Conservative government at Westminster.

She also managed to weave in digs at Rishi Sunak’s minimum service levels strike legislation, and the row over gender reforms.

Three different levels of government – all caught up in the same fundamental dispute between the SNP and Tories.

Douglas Ross again refers to the industrial action being taken by teachers across Scotland.

Teachers have launched a fresh wave of rolling strikes across Scotland as a union leader warned there was no end in sight to the current pay dispute.

The FM insists her government is increasing council funding by £570m and says it will continue to seek fair pay deals.

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We're back up and running now. Just before the suspension, Douglas Ross reiterated his point that there are 900 fewer teachers in Scotland since the SNP came to power.

The Scottish Tory leader asks if the education secretary was right when she said getting rid of the attainment gap completely was never going to happen.

The first minister replies: "Our commitment to substantially eliminate the poverty-related attainment gap by 2026 still stands."

Sturgeon says tackling child poverty would not be as difficult as it is if there was not a Tory government in power pushing more children into poverty.

First Minister's Questions is briefly suspended by the Presiding Officer after shouts are heard from the public gallery.

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Sturgeon says she knows Ross "favours riding roughshod over the decisions and powers of democratically elected institutions".

So, the constitutional row continues unabated.

The first minister insists she respects the autonomy of democratically-elected institutions.

She says, in this financial year, her government provided £145m of additional funding to councils to employ 2,400 more teachers and 500 more classroom assistants.

Ross argues the FM's record is 900 fewer teachers in Scotland and he says he is not sure how her rhetoric matches her record.

He says he's "deeply worried" at the plan to cut teacher numbers and says if Glasgow City Council goes ahead with it, there would be a 15% cut in teaching staff.

The Scottish Tory leader adds there are also reports that East Ayrshire Council is also considering cuts to teaching staff, as is East Renfrewshire Council.

"This is what happens when the SNP don't properly fund councils," he says.

"How many teachers are going to lose their jobs in Scotland?"

The first minister argues that very often savings proposals do not proceed.

Nicola Sturgeon tells the chamber she has not seen the detail of these proposals and she reminds MSPs that councils are autonomous.

She says: "I am in favour of more teachers, not fewer teachers."

The Scottish Conservative leader says there are reports from a leaked document that Glasgow City Council is considering cutting 800 teaching posts.

Ross says the general secretary of the SSTA union has said this would "write off" the current generation of pupils.

He asks if the first minister is aware that "an SNP council was considering such a drastic cut in teacher numbers".

The first minister is in her seat and Douglas Ross rises to begin this week's FMQs.

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One issue that is bound to be raised in this week's FMQs is the unprecedented pressure on Scotland's NHS.

The health service has never before been under such strain, with dire warnings from doctors about patient safety.

Scotland, like every part of the UK, faces challenges if it is going to make the health and social care system work now - and into the future.

So what are problems that need to be fixed? Click here for analysis from BBC Scotland's health correspondent Lisa Summers.