Suicide: Children

(asked on 18th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of school students attempting suicide after receiving a mental health referral but before starting treatment in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 25th July 2019

We have made no such estimate.

Suicide prevention is a priority for this Government. We published the first ever cross-Government suicide prevention workplan, in January 2019 and we are supporting young people with mental health problems at an earlier stage through bringing education and mental health closer together in schools-based mental health support teams.

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