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Looking to the future, the Scottish Government and COSLA will publish a new Suicide Prevention Strategy in September 2022, accompanied by an initial Action Plan.
Our society has high levels of food insecurity, children going hungry and families increasingly dependent on food banks. There are predictions of a further increase in demand for food banks, due to the pandemic, the resultant unemployment and increasing poverty.
We need a greater level of assurance that these lessons are being considered systematically and banked to improve future service provision, resilience, and agility.
Part of that will be about building up the capability to do as the Bank of England and other organisations do, which is to look back at their own forecasting performance to inform future forecasts.
As I said, the Scottish Government is entirely committed to the 2045 target. In 2022, the Scottish Government commissioned an analytical report on the estimated projection of Scottish emissions from 2019 to 2045, which is published on the Scottish Government’s website.