Guidance on bereavement by suicide support services
As part of yesterday Prime Minister’s speech on mental health and suicide prevention, PHE and NSPA have launched new resources to encourage the development of services for people bereaved by suicide. It is a key ambition of JMMF to see that everyone affected by suicide should receive timely and appropriate support and it has been recognised as a key area of action in the national strategy since 2012 but to date support services are very patchy across England and too many people receive no help in the wake of a suicide. To help commissioners provide appropriate local services a guide to providing local services is now available from Public Health England. We hope that as part of local authority and health services’ wider suicide prevention work that they will provide more and better postvention services.
In addition, NSPA have launched Developing and delivering local suicide postvention support and Evaluating local suicide postvention support. These resources outline a suggested pathway of support for people affected by suicide and a step-by-step framework for delivery. All three resources were produced by Amy and her team at Meadows Communications with input from a wide range of valued practitioners.
- Guide to providing local services
- Developing and delivering local suicide postvention support
- Evaluating local suicide postvention support