Resources for Practitioners
Below you’ll find links to a range of suicide and self-harm prevention resources and documents.
Links to general mental health resources can be found on our Mental Health Network Resources page.
- Thematic Review: Deaths of Children and Young People through Probable Suicide 2013-2017
Child Death Review Programme - Everybody’s Business – A report on suicide prevention in Wales, National Assembly for Wales Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, December 2018
- Responding to issues of self-harm and thoughts of suicide in young people: guidance for teachers, professionals, volunteers and youth services
Welsh Government, September 2019
Regional Suicide and Self-harm Prevention Coordinators
North Wales
David Patel, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
David.Patel@wales.nhs.uk
Mid and West Wales
Laura Tranter, Hywel Dda University Health Board
Laura.Tranter@wales.nhs.uk
South East Wales
Ceri Fowler, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Ceri.Fowler2@wales.nhs.uk
National Advisory Group
- Membership of the National Advisory Group for suicide and self-harm prevention in Wales
- Local Suicide Prevention Planning Guidance issued by the National Advisory Group (NAG)
14 November 2017
The National Suicide Prevention Alliance and Public Health England have collaborated to produce local suicide prevention planning – a practical resource (January 2020), to help local agencies, including local authorities, to develop their local suicide prevention strategies and action plans
Further information on data and evidence relating to Mental Health, including suicide and self-harm (2017), can be found on the Public Health Wales Observatory website.