Scotland's suicide prevention strategy and action plan.
The new strategy and action plan builds on the work already happening across Scotland – nationally and locally – to prevent suicide, whilst being ambitious and going further than before, to ensure fewer lives in Scotland are lost to suicide.
The new strategy takes an outcomes focused approach. Outcomes are the results or changes we want to see as a result of the strategy and action plan. These include changes in knowledge, awareness, skills, practice, behaviour, social action, and decision making.
The strategy aims to address the inequalities which contribute to suicide. The action plan includes actions that bring about change across the whole of government policy and society. In practice, this means the strategy and action plan sets out how suicide prevention will be embedded within existing and future policies across national and local government, and how that translates into effective action on the ground - across all sectors and communities.