Policy paper

Suicide prevention: third annual report

The third progress report of the suicide prevention strategy sets out what's being done to reduce deaths by suicide in England.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 9 January 2017

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

Preventing suicide in England: Third progress report of the cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives

PDF, 1.14 MB, 38 pages

Details

This report charts progress made against the previous 2012 Suicide prevention strategy for England and 2019 Suicide prevention cross-government workplan, which were superseded by the Suicide prevention strategy for England: 2023 to 2028 published on 11 September 2023.

The third progress report of the cross-government suicide prevention strategy details the activity that has taken place across England to reduce deaths by suicide in the year ending March 2016.

This report is being used to update the 2012 strategy in 5 main areas:

• expanding the strategy to include self-harm prevention in its own right
• every local area to produce a multi-agency suicide prevention plan
• improving suicide bereavement support in order to develop support services
• better targeting of suicide prevention and help seeking in high risk groups
• improve data at both the national and local levels

These updates will help to meet the recommendations of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health relevant to suicide prevention: to reduce the number of suicides by 10% by the year ending March 2021 and for every local area to have a multi-agency suicide prevention plan in place by the end of 2017.

Published 9 January 2017