Lambeth Suicide Prevention Strategy 2025 – 2030
Lambeth’s new Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan sets out a five-year approach to helping save lives being lost to suicide, while highlighting that the risk for suicide is higher in many key groups.
Our key priority groups will be:
- children and young people
- men (in particular, those aged 45-64)
- people in contact with mental health services
- people in contact with the justice system
- people with autism
- birthing people and new mothers
- people who have self-harmed
- LGBTQ+ communities
- people with disabilities
- asylum seekers
- people facing financial difficulty and economic adversity
- people affected by gambling harms
- people who are misusing substances
- domestic abuse survivors.
Our approach to prevention must be multi-agency and include addressing social and commercial determinants of suicide.
This strategy provides a framework for collective activities which bring together the council, primary and secondary health and care services, voluntary and third sector organisations as well as communities and individuals.