Suicide Prevention Participation Network joint meeting with the Local Children and Young People Suicide Prevention Forum
Meeting #15
Monday, 17 November 2025
12:30pm - 3:30pm | Edinburgh
The National Suicide Prevention Youth Advisory Group in partnership with the University of Stirling.
The participation network is aimed at practitioners in Scotland working with young people with experience of suicidality, young people who have lost someone to suicide or young people who experience poor mental health.
Key Learning
- Increased understanding of the work of the Suicide Prevention Youth Advisory Group and the wider Suicide Prevention Participation Network
- Increased knowledge of opportunities for young people’s participation in policy making relating to Suicide Prevention Scotland
This session will be a joint session of the Participation Network, held by Children in Scotland, and the Local Children and Young People Suicide Prevention Forum held in partnership with COSLA and Public Health Scotland.
It shall take place at COSLA’s office in Edinburgh from 12.30 until 3.30pm.
It will celebrate the launch of this year’s Time, Space and Compassion practice stories, an approach to securing better outcomes for young people and children experiencing suicidal crisis by focusing on people’s experiences. Past practice studies can be viewed here.
At the event we will have:
- Networking lunch
- A gallery of the practice stories
- Keynote speeches from those who have provided their practice in the stories
- Engagement session with Scottish Government to provide your voice to the work on going to support young people to access crisis support
If you wish to find out more about the group before attending, please contact Parisa Shirazi on pshirazi@childreninscotland.org.uk.
Facilitators
The meeting of the group will be delivered by Chris Ross and Parisa Shirazi from Children in Scotland.
Background
In 2022, Children in Scotland started its work delivering the national suicide prevention Youth Advisory Group in partnership with the University of Stirling.
In addition to the main work of the group, we are facilitating a participation network, in recognition that there will be many other children and young people who are not part of our advisory group but who have experiences and opinions that could and should inform our work.
Have any questions?
Please get in touch and a member of the Children in Scotland events team will be happy to help.
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