Mental health and wellbeing strategy: delivery plan 2023-2025

Appendix 2 – Scottish Government policies and programmes in support of this Delivery Plan

Key Policy Drivers – this Delivery Plan has to connect and align with other policies and frameworks, together with relevant legislation. This includes but is not limited to:

Equality and Inclusion

• A Fairer Scotland for Older People: Framework for Action
• Ending Destitution Together Strategy
• Anti-Racist Employment Strategy
• Equally Safe Strategy
• Strategy for Our Veterans
• Coming Home Implementation report – five recommendations
• New Scots: Refugee Integration Strategy (refresh)
• Policy on ending conversion practices
• Upcoming Non-Binary Equality Action Plan
• Hate Crime Strategy
• Women’s Health Plan
• Challenging men’s demand for prostitution: policy principles

Human Rights

• Policy on incorporation of Human Rights
• Incorporation of the UNCRC
• Policy on Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence
• SNAP 2 – Scotland’s second National Human Rights Action Plan
• Equalities and Human Rights Mainstreaming Strategy
• National Trauma Transformation Programme

Housing

• Ending Homelessness Together
• Policy on Housing Standards
• Rented Sector Strategy (upcoming)

Fair Work, Employability and Skills

• Greater importance on employment and fair work
• Fair Work Action Plan

Economy

• Greater importance on financial inclusion, including provision of household financial advice
• National Strategy for Economic Transformation, including the Wellbeing Economy approach
• Free school meals
• Free bus travel
• National Events Strategy

Education

• Adult Learning Strategy for Scotland

Safer Communities

• Upcoming Violence Prevention Framework
• A Connected Scotland Strategy
• UK Online Safety Bill
• Renewal of play parks and outdoor play
• Equally Safe, funding for women and girls’ counselling services
• Social Isolation and Loneliness: Recovering our Connections

Social Justice

• Best Start, Bright Futures: Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-2026

Early Learning and Childcare

• Best Start – Strategic Early Learning and School Age Childcare Plan

Children and Young People

• Recommendations made by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Joint Delivery Board
• The Promise
• Children, Young Peoples and Families Outcomes Framework
• Children’s Services Planning
• Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)
• Whole Family Wellbeing Funding
• Care Leavers and Care Experience
• Early Childhood Development
• School Nursing (Transformed Role)
• Universal Health Visiting Pathway
• Mainstreaming Children’s Rights

Justice

• Vision for Justice in Scotland
• Priority of mental health pathway development
• Trauma-informed approaches and training
• Youth Justice and Children’s Hearings (the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act review)

Health and Social Care

• National Care Service
• Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019
• Getting it Right for Everyone (GIRFE)
• Dementia Strategy for Scotland
• Scottish Mental Health Law Review response
• See Hear Strategy (2024 refresh)
• New Young Carer Strategy
• National Carers Strategy
• A Connected Scotland Strategy
• Self-directed Support Improvement Plan
• British Sign Language National Plan (upcoming)
• Spiritual Care Framework
• Care in the Digital Age
• Data-Driven Care in the Digital Age
• Bereavement
• End of life care

Planning and Infrastructure

• Blue and green infrastructure ‘green spaces’

Population Health

• Drug Deaths Taskforce Response: A Cross- Government Approach
• Greater importance on physical health
• Clinical priorities
• Primary Care Health Inequalities
• Healthcare Planning: Curriculum for Patient Safety (upcoming)

Data and Digital

• Health Data Strategy
• Equalities Data Strategy
• CAPTND Infrastructure Programme
• Digital Inclusion Programme
• Digital Mental Health Programme
• NCS Data and Digital Programme