Northern Ireland Health Minister, Michelle O’Neill, has launched a consultation on Protect Life 2 – a strategy for suicide prevention in the north of Ireland. The consultation was launched to
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An online service which aims to promote music as an aid to battling depression is launching a fundraising campaign. Mental health activist Maureen O’Kelly and her husband Iain Kelly want
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“I have met many parents who have lost a child to suicide,” explains Louis Appleby, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and Chair of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory
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The number of times that police cells in England and Wales are being used to hold people suffering a mental health crisis has more than halved in one year. The
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Antidepressant prescribing amongst children and young people has shown a significant increase of 28% in the past decade, even though recorded diagnoses of depression have gone down, according to new
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The hugely important UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities aims to ‘promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms
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Childline is handling soaring numbers of calls from children seeking help for suicidal thoughts, a new report has revealed. The NSPCC service held 19,481 counselling sessions about suicide in 2015/16
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The number of children and young people waiting more than a year for specialist help with mental-health problems has almost trebled, according to new figures. Of those starting treatment in
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A watchdog investigating the care of a mother who suffocated her baby while suffering severe postnatal depression has found opportunities to refer her to mental health services were missed. The
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Police officers responsible for protecting children, the elderly and domestic abuse victims should require a licence to carry out the role, ministers will be told this week. The head of
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