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Information Classification: CONTROLLED Suicide Prevention in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly – a focus on Camborne Pool Illogan and Redruth Community Network Panel Wellbeing & Public Health and Partners

Information Classification: CONTROLLED Agenda Suicides in Cornwall - Recent trends and data update including specific data • from Camborne, Pool, Illogan, and Redruth Our approach to suicide prevention • Real time surveillance Immediate postvention Prevention actions 1. Population wide 2. Targeted populations Partnerships • Suicide surveillance group Multi Agency Suicide Prevention Group

Information Classification: CONTROLLED Suicide in context Around 765 people are murdered in the UK every year. • Around 2,000 people are killed on UK roads every year. • Around 6,000 people die by suicide in the UK each year (1,500 women and 4,500 • men). On average more than one person dies per week by suicide in Cornwall & IoS. • Suicide rates for Cornwall and IoS are significantly higher than suicide rates in • both England and South West at 14.6 per 100,000 people. Over the past 10 years 73 residents have suicided across your network panel • geography

Information Classification: CONTROLLED Suicide data

Information Classification: CONTROLLED Camborne, Pool, Illogan and Redruth Community Network Panel suicide data 2009-2018 Men Women Average age No.in employment 2009 2 0 61 0 2010 7 1 32 0 2011 3 0 68 0 2012 9 5 45 0 2013 8 1 40 2 2014 9 1 51 5 2015 6 4 37 4 2016 4 2 36 2 2017 5 1 46 2 2018 5 0 45 5 Overall 58 (81%) 15 (19%) 44 20 (28%)

Information Classification: CONTROLLED Real-time surveillance Need real time surveillance to enable timely postvention actions to be taken Have set up a surveillance group with key partners so anyone who hears about a suicide notifies us and we distribute to partnership group to gain a quick understanding of who may be affected (partner, children, work colleagues, friends) Suicide surveillance partners include: Devon & Cornwall Police • Suicide Liaison Service • School Effectiveness, Educational Psychology and Penhaligon’s Friends • Healthy Workplaces • GP Practices • DAAT •

Information Classification: CONTROLLED Postvention activity • Advertising the Suicide Liaison Service to bereaved families • Supporting schools and colleges where children of the bereaved may attend • Providing advice and guidance to work places where the bereaved has worked • Notifying and supporting GP practices • Identifying an cluster/contagion activity and working with specific at-risk groups

Information Classification: CONTROLLED Multi-Agency Suicide Prevention Group Schools, Multi-Agency Suicide Prevention Group (MSPG) Benefits colleges & Advisers universities CCG • Social CFT Armed Drugs and • services alcohol forces Faith British CRCC • services leaders Transport D&A Action Team (& Addaction) Police • D&C Police • Employers Network Public Educational Psychology Rail • health Housing Suicide GP Lead for Suicide Prevention associations • Healthwatch Emergency • Prevention Careers’ services Healthy Cornwall organisations • Partnership Inclusion Cornwall • Prisons and Community OSW (IAPT) probation Police • & voluntary & Crime sector CCG’s Public Health England Commissioners • RCHT • Job Centre Coroner’s Samaritans Primary care • Plus Crisis Care office Health including Concordat Service users and care • G P’s network providers Suicide Liaison Service • People Psychiatric Liaison Police affected by • suicide Valued Lives •

Information Classification: CONTROLLED Suicide Prevention Action Plan • Suicide data and postvention • Inpatients – Towards Zero initiatives embedded into CFT work • Communications and digital – working with media colleagues around reporting • Communities – Farming, fishermen, teachers • Training – 1000s of people attended ASIST, SafeTalk, SuicideTalk, MHFA • Healthy Workplaces – mental wellbeing/ill health awareness, MHFAs, preparedness package • High-risk groups; bereaved, unemployed, D&A dependent etc. • High-risk locations – signage, Training, • Reducing access to means • Suicide safer Primary Care* • Improving support after self-harm* • Get Set to Go* • Personal Safety Planning* • Live life to the full* • *NHS England funded projects

Information Classification: CONTROLLED What more can we do? Anything specific to your area? Any groups/specific communities you think we should be working with? Any other questions?