Postvention and Incident Response

This document forms part of the Local Suicide Prevention Planning and Implementation Toolkit developed by Public Health Scotland.

This section introduces some of the main areas of postvention and incident response work and provides links to further information and guidance to support you as you plan and take action locally.

• Understand the types of activities which often happen following a suicide related incident and which you may undertake as part of your response.
• Locate relevant guidance, information and resources to support you to develop your response or to support others in their response.
• Consider postvention and incident response in relation to communities, staff and colleagues, and children and young people