Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan sets out our priorities and actions to help us achieve our vision of a Scotland, free from stigma and inequality, where everyone fulfils their right to achieve the best mental health and wellbeing possible.
Ongoing Work
In addition to actions that were completed under the previous Delivery Plan, it is recognised that a large amount of crucial work being done is not captured within this plan. This is because this work is now considered ‘business as usual’. This plan focuses on next steps.
There is also work being undertaken through other plans, such as the Creating Hope Together Suicide Prevention Action Plan, which have their own governance arrangements. To avoid duplication, work that is now considered ‘business as usual’, is captured in other key documents or is being taken forward through other Scottish Government commitments has not been included in this plan (see Annex C).
The following areas of focus remain central to our work and will be embedded in all the work across this Plan:
- a commitment to working in accordance with the Verity House agreement and in keeping with whole system approaches
- embedding trauma informed and responsive approach across our actions
- ensuring an approach that promotes equalities and human rights and challenges stigma
- reducing the number of suicide deaths in Scotland, whilst tackling the inequalities that contribute to suicide
- recognising the crucial importance of workforce skill and capacity in the delivery of quality mental health and wellbeing support and services.
- recognising the importance of progressing our actions informed by lived experience
- strengthening whole-system approaches to supporting people experiencing mental health, distress and vulnerability through our partnership work with Police Scotland, Health Boards, wider public and third sector.
Continued Scottish Government support for See Me as well as the National Trauma Transformation Programme, help the NHS and local government to deliver services in a way that reduces stigma and discrimination and is inclusive of everyone.
If someone needs to be detained, their rights under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2003 will be upheld and they will be treated with dignity and respect.
For those people who require care and treatment within secure care or in a custodial setting, we will continue to ensure they have access to mental health support that supports their recovery, rehabilitation and continuity of care both during and after contact with the care or justice system.