Publication - Progress report
Mental Health and Wellbeing Leadership Board: delivery plan progress report 4 - September 2025
The fourth progress report assessing the delivery of the strategic actions found within the mental health and wellbeing strategy, the accompanying delivery plan and workforce action plan, including a summary of identified risks and issues.
Action Delivery Assessment Overview
Colour, name and status
- Blue: complete
- Green: on track
- Amber: at risk
- Red: off track
- Purple: missed no risk
- Grey: missed with risk
N.B. There will be instances where Strategic Actions remain open despite all delivery actions being complete. This is due to the ambitions and medium-long term nature of the Strategic Actions which will be considered for future iterations of the Delivery Plan. The timeline of these actions has been extended due to a delay in the Delivery Plan refresh, this means some actions have been continuing in work despite being marked as complete to their original deadline.
Risk & Issue Summary
- There are concerns that financial pressures and budget decisions continue to impact on service delivery, delivery partner capacity, and SG internal prioritisation.
- There are concerns around the impact of Local Government budgets locally and potential of impact on service delivery across scope of Local Government, including in terms of social determinants and the impact that will have on demand.
- There are ongoing capacity concerns across all delivery partners, the mental health workforce and within Scottish Government mental health teams.
- Whilst the new Delivery Collective infrastructure is fully in place, there may be a risk to local delivery of suicide prevention as funding for the COSLA post is no longer available.
- Increased demand around Learning Disability, Autism and Neurodivergence (LDAN) policy work have caused delays in progressing some LDAN focused actions.