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<p>The Office for National Statistics publishes annual statistics on suicide registrations
for the United Kingdom, including age-specific suicide rates by five-year age groups.
A table attached provides statistics for suicides in people aged 10-14 and 15-19 in
the UK between 1981 and 2015, the latest data available, is attached due to the size
of the data.</p><p> </p><p>The Department leads delivery of the Cross-Government Suicide
Prevention Strategy for England. Suicide prevention is a devolved matter in other
UK countries.</p><p> </p><p>The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide
by People with Mental Illness, which is commissioned by NHS England and supported
by the Department, published a thematic review in 2016, Suicide by Children and Young
People in England. The report identified ten common themes relating to suicides by
people under 20 years of age:</p><p> </p><p>- family factors such as mental illness;</p><p>-
abuse and neglect;</p><p>- bereavement and experience of suicide;</p><p>- bullying;</p><p>-
suicide-related internet use;</p><p>- academic pressures, especially related to exams;</p><p>-
social isolation or withdrawal;</p><p>- physical health conditions that may have social
impact;</p><p>- alcohol and illicit drugs; and</p><p>- mental ill health, self-harm
and suicidal ideas.</p><p> </p>
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