Public places: Response pathway to suicides at coastal cliffs.
Wrote an extensive recommendations report for East Sussex County Council to ensure best use of resources across local systems and responders, including full analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Project including interviewing a wide range of stakeholders.
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Recent clients include Parents 1st, the National Suicide Prevention Alliance and East Sussex County Council. Neil also worked with Thames Valley Air Ambulance as strategic support, on a part time basis.
Prevention strategy: Suicide prevention strategy for shopping centres and car parks.
Undertook site visits for high risk locations for suicide at JLL’s shopping centres in England.
Wrote an extensive suicide prevention strategy to be rolled out across JLL’s portfolio of shopping centres in the UK.
Strategy drew on national best practice and guidance, and included suicide prevention, trauma support for staff, working with local stakeholders, physical measures recommendations and operational procedures.
New services: Set up National Suicide Prevention Alliance lived experience panel and Pan Essex Perinatal Mental Health Peer Support network
Programme managed the launch of these services/programmes. Included project managing launch, training of staff and volunteers, recruitment of staff, writing policies and procedures, social media, management of Facebook support group, management of panel.
Worked with external stakeholders to promote services and received referrals. Reported into commissioners.
Public places: Suicide Prevention and Safety Signage Audit
Working with a county and a city council in southern England, we designed and delivered signage audits, documenting precise locations of all suicide prevention, safety signs and other relevant signs and features. Both projects involved stakeholder engagement and extensive site visits. Advice and guidance was provided around the position and condition of signage as well as suggested locations for new signs. This process can be replicated at any high risk site for suicide.
If you manage a high risk location which could benefit from this work or advice on how to support vulnerable people and reduce suicide, do get in touch.
Prevention strategy: Suicide prevention strategy for county public health
Working with the pan-Sussex authorities, we updated their county-wide suicide prevention strategy in light of the new Suicide Prevention Strategy for England.
Prevention strategy: Suicide prevention strategy review workshop
We were invited by Kent County Council’s public health team to deliver a workshop with stakeholders to review the county’s suicide prevention strategy. Project involved planning and delivering the workshop, as well as writing up the review and making recommendations.
Peer Support: Suicide Prevention Review
Reviewed the Mental Health Foundation’s peer support programmes through the lens of suicide prevention, to see how suicide prevention could be incorporated. Work involved review of all materials and holding consultation workshops with service users.