The Scottish Government wants to hear your views on what a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Scotland (2022-27) should look like.
The Strategy will guide the work that the Government, and their partners, will do to improve mental health and wellbeing in Scotland. This will include an overall shared vision, a set of outcomes, and how they will achieve these to improve people’s mental health and wellbeing. It will also describe how the difference will be measured.
The strategy covers a range of things, including:
- addressing the underlying reasons behind poor mental health;
- helping to create the conditions for people to thrive;
- challenging the stigma around mental health, and;
- providing specialist help and support for mental illness.
The Scottish Government also wants the Strategy to guide how we provide support to everyone who has a role in improving and supporting people’s mental health and wellbeing.
This ranges from the specialist mental health workforce to those working in all health and social care settings, in communities, schools, police custody suites and prisons. In addition to the invaluable support from volunteers and unpaid carers.
You can read and respond to the consultation on the Scottish Government Consult website by the 9th September 2022 at:
https://consult.gov.scot/mental-health-unit/mental-health-and-wellbeing-strategy