Suicide prevention strategy development: early engagement - summary report

Purpose

This report seeks to provide an overview of the findings of the extensive initial engagement process undertaken by the Scottish Government, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA) and Public Health Scotland (PHS) into all aspects of suicide. This early engagement process ran between September 2021 and January 2022. As almost six hundred contributions of varying degrees of complexity, were received issues on which there was a degree of consensus, or which demonstrated effective or innovative approaches have been highlighted.