The Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund: FOI release

Information requested

Details of those organisations who successfully received funding from the Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund 2021, as follows:

1. A list the names of organisations that received funding from the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund in Scotland between March 2021 and February 2022.

2 A list how much funding each organisation received.

3 Does the National Mental Health and Wellbeing Network exist?

4 Under what criteria can an individual or organisation join the National Mental Health and Wellbeing Network?

Response

In relation to questions 1 and 2 above I enclose the information you requested in Annex A to this response.

The answer to question 3 is yes. The purpose of the National Mental Health & Wellbeing Network is to:

• Share progress and good practice
• Highlight challenges and support each other
• Provide networking opportunities
• Develop the capacity of local partnerships
• Improve Scottish Government understanding of Fund implementation and the role we need to play to best support this
• Learn from fund implementation and explore ways of applying this learning to wider Scottish Government policy

In response to question 4, membership of the group includes:

• Third Sector Interface (TSIs) Chief Officers and any relevant TSI project or programme managers should attend.
• Wider partners from the Local Partnership Groups. This will vary and could include:
• Health and Social Care Partnerships(HSCP) Chief Officers (or representative) and other key partners from the second whole network meeting onwards.
• Community Planning Partnerships contacts.
• Local authority mental health leads such as children and young people community services leads.
• Community anchor organisations.

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FOI 202200312136 - Information released

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