Creating Hope Together – Glasgow City Suicide Prevention Partnership
On 22 January 2026, the Scottish Government and COSLA launched the new 2026 to 2029 action plan for Creating Hope Together. The new plan sets out Scotland’s continued commitment to reducing suicide and improving support for people and communities affected by suicide.
It builds on the first three years of Scotland’s suicide prevention strategy, and is based around four key strategic outcomes:
• Creating a safer environment to prevent suicide
• Understanding suicide and tackling stigma
• Ensuring people affected by suicide can access support
• Collaboration in a way that draws on evidence and lived experience.
You can view an animation that summarises the action plan on Suicide Prevention Scotland’s YouTube channel.
Local action in Glasgow
In Glasgow, partners are already working collectively to align with these national priorities.
Our Glasgow City Suicide Prevention Partnership (GCSPP) adopts a multi-agency approach to suicide prevention, which includes engagement through local and national campaigns, awareness-raising activities and building the capacity of partners to be part of the preventative effort. Recent work includes expanding suicide prevention training across frontline services and supporting citywide awareness campaigns.
The GCSPP offers three core training programmes: suicideTALK, safeTALK and ASIST. These courses provide a spectrum of awareness and skills-based learning opportunities for staff members. In 2025, the partnership successfully conducted 52 training courses with a total of 920 attendees.
Alongside training, the partnership is committed to an equality and human rights based approach, ensuring the needs of groups disproportionately affected by distress, stigma and discrimination are understood and addressed. This is reflected across the priorities and actions driven forward by its members.
The partnership will continue to work closely with national and local stakeholders to ensure the action plan delivers meaningful change across the city.
Trevor Lakey, Chair of GCSPP said: “We welcome this new national action plan and the momentum it brings in strengthening our shared commitment to creating hope across Glasgow.
We know that building confidence and skills across our workforce and volunteer networks is vital. When more people feel equipped to talk about suicide, offer support and challenge stigma, we strengthen the safety and wellbeing of our whole city.
This action plan gives us a clear, evidence based direction for the next three years, and in Glasgow we’re ready to put it into practice. Our focus remains on listening to our communities, understanding the barriers people face and ensuring that support is there early, compassionately and fairly for anyone who needs it.”