Leadership Board - Fifth meeting: MHWB Strategy and Delivery Plan Progress Report

Actions Delivered Since Last Reporting Period and Known Achievements/Impacts/Learning

Action 7.1.1

Work collectively with partners, scope work being undertaken within existing regional, and national networks, clarifying their current and potential roles in supporting mental health and wellbeing services planning and delivery, identifying levers to support ongoing improvement in oversight, leadership, and collaboration and utilising learning to inform next steps.

• Paper on this completed and shared with COSLA

Action 7.2.1

Continue Scottish Government’s work with NHS Assure to develop a ‘Once for Scotland’ approach to assessing the in-patient mental health settings for quality, safety, ligature risk and therapeutic environment, including national roll out of Mental Health Estates Tool.

• Rolled out in June 2025
• Further action required if this is to be extended to Local Government

Action 9.1.5

Continue to work with children and young people with neurodevelopmental support needs, their families and organisations that represent them, to ensure services understand and take account of needs in the delivery of services. Review learning from implementing the Neurodevelopmental Service Specification Principles and Standards of Care to date, ensuring it meets the needs of service users and that resources required to deliver the specification are fully understood, updating and implementing the specification as appropriate.

• The Neurodevelopmental Specification implementation review was completed and published in June 2025. This recommended establishment of a Children and Young People’s Neurodevelopmental Taskforce to take forward work to support wider implementation of the Specification. The Taskforce has now been set up and met for the first time on 2 October 2025.

Action 10.1.2

To support parents and caregivers, further enhance the provision of high quality, evidence based support for parents by investing in the Psychology of Parenting Programme, Solihull Online and the Early Intervention Framework.

• Funding provided to NHS Education for Scotland (NES) for Psychology of Parenting Project (PoPP), Solihull Online and Early Intervention Framework (EIF) run within.

Action 10.3.1

Work with the survivors lived experience group, Voices for a Better Future to ensure survivors contribute, influence and lead on future service design and delivery.

• The Voices group was formally handed over to Future Pathways to manage and oversee with minimal input from SG.