Issue - meetings

H&F Suicide Prevention Strategy, 2024-27

 

 

Meeting: 03/03/2025 - Cabinet (Item 4)

4 Hammersmith & Fulham Suicide Prevention Strategy 2024 - 2027 pdf icon PDF 131 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

1.    That Cabinet agrees to adopt the Suicide Prevention Strategy 2024–2027 for the borough.

Minutes:

Councillor Alex Sanderson (Deputy Leader) introduced the report and highlighted the Council’s shared vision for suicide prevention, for residents to get help and receive appropriate and effective support at the right level and at the right time. The strategy focused on four key areas:

  • Investing in local support services.
  • Delivering the ‘Reach out’ campaign to raise awareness of local services.
  • Strengthening referral pathways between stakeholders to ensure residents received tailored support.
  • Providing suicide awareness training for frontline officers, police and local enforcement teams, empowering them to assist residents in crisis.

 

Councillor Sanderson noted that suicide prevention in Hammersmith and Fulham was predicated on the belief that suicide was not inevitable and that working to reduce the rate of deaths by suicide was everybody's business.

 

AGREED UNANIMOUSLY BY THE CABINET MEMBERS:

 

  1. That Cabinet agrees to adopt the Suicide Prevention Strategy 2024–2027 for the borough.