Industry voices call for suicide prevention

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...