Government launches strategy to ‘rapidly reduce’ suicide rate that has remained stuck since 2018

The government has launched a strategy to “rapidly reduce” England’s suicide rate, which has remained stuck since 2018 amid increasing numbers of deaths of children and young people.
Ministers want to see the current rate fall within the next two-and-a-half years and have set out more than 100 measures to achieve this in the five-year plan, most of which are ongoing.
However, while welcoming the strategy – the first since 2012 – Samaritans criticised the lack of fun