Industry voices call for suicide prevention

World Suicide Prevention Day

Adam Saville
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GRiD, RedArc and Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing urge employers to take action

Today's World Suicide Prevention Day comes just a week after the ONS reported that suicide rates in the UK reached a five-year high in 2018. While a change in the coroners' standard of proof - from ‘beyond reasonable doubt' to the balance of probabilities' - could be contributing to the rising figures, statistics suggest that more young females under the age of 25 took their life last year and middle-aged men remain at most risk. According to ONS, 6,507 suicides were registered last year, marking an almost 12% rise on the previous year and the highest rate since 2002 Whether or not...

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