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<p>Earlier this year the Government announced an additional £1 billion to improve
mental health services over the next five years. This includes £400 million to support
delivery of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health recommendation to develop
seven-day community-based mental health crisis resolution services by 2020/21.</p><p>
</p><p>We launched the successful Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat in 2014 to ensure
that people receive the appropriate support they need when they experience a mental
health crisis. Every area in the country now has a local crisis care action plan in
place which ensures that local agencies are working together to deliver support to
people in a mental health crisis.</p><p> </p><p>We welcomed the Five Year Forward
View for Mental Health recommendations for suicide prevention to reduce the national
suicide rate by 10% by 2020/21, for all areas to implement multi-agency suicide prevention
plans by 2017 and that all deaths by suicide across NHS-funded mental health settings,
including out-of-area placements, are learned from to prevent repeat events.</p><p>
</p><p>We have been clear that we expect local crisis care action plans to dovetail
with multi-agency suicide prevention plans. My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State
for Health delivered this message at the Crisis Care Summit in October. Public Health
England published refreshed guidance to local authorities, ‘Local Suicide Prevention
Planning: A practice resource’ in October to support them in developing suicide prevention
plans. The guidance highlights the link with local crisis care action plans and suicide
prevention plans.</p><p> </p><p>We are strengthening key areas of the cross-Government
Suicide Prevention Strategy to improve local delivery of its aims, which we will publish
in due course.</p>
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