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2 Description of respondents

2.1 The consultation received 76 written responses. However, one-quarter of these responses were submitted by representatives of multi-agency groups or partnership bodies. In many cases, these groups were specifically gathered for the purpose of commenting on the consultation paper, and their responses were collated and submitted by NHS Boards or local authorities. Annex 1 of this report provides a list of all the respondents to the consultation.

2.2 Table 1 below provides a breakdown of the responses by sector ( NHS, local authority, voluntary, etc)

Table 1: Breakdown of responses, by sector

2.3 Just over a quarter of responses (28.9%) came from voluntary sector agencies or other charitable organisations. In most cases, these agencies had a national remit ( e.g., Alcohol Focus Scotland, Alzheimer Scotland, Depression Alliance Scotland, etc). Responses were also submitted by current and former mental health service users, carers or their representatives (13.2%).

2.4 As mentioned above, one-quarter of responses (25%) came from consultation exercises or events involving multi-agency groups or partnership bodies. Table 2 on the following page, provides an indication of the scale of these local consultations, and Annex 2 provides further details of the participants in local consultations.

2.5 Thirty-two respondents (42.1%) represented organisations with a national remit. These included, for example, NHS Health Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland, the Scottish Children's Reporter Association, professional representative bodies and trade unions, and many of the voluntary sector respondents. Thirty-one respondents (40.8%) represented organisations that had a remit within a local area. These included, for example, responses from local authorities, or locally organised multi-agency events and local service users' or carers groups. The remaining 13 responses (17.1%) came from individuals. These included individual service users, carers, doctors, nurses or other interested individuals.

2.6 Because such a large proportion of responses were submitted by multi-agency / partnership groups, no attempt has been made in this report to undertake an analysis of responses by sector. However, where a particular theme arose from within just one particular sector, this will be highlighted.

Table 2: Participation in multi-agency consultation exercises or events

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