National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group (NSPLG): fourth annual report

NSPLG Youth Advisory Group (YAG)

The Suicide Prevention Action Plan - Every Life Matters, committed to ensuring that all its actions would consider the needs of children and young people. This was initially achieved by working with our existing Lived Experience Panel (LEP) and Delivery Leads and we are now in the process of establishing a NSPLG Youth Advisory Group (YAG) in addition to our adult LEP.

Children in Scotland and the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Research Unit (NMAHP-RU) at the University of Stirling have been appointed to recruit, host and manage the new YAG, to be made up of young people aged 16–25 years with lived experience relating to mental health and suicide. A broader Participation Network will additionally enable many other young people to help shape suicide prevention policy and practice through Scotland’s new strategy.

Recruitment to our YAG is currently in progress and we look forward to working directly with young people and those who support them to ensure that their needs are at the forefront of suicide prevention work in Scotland.