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<p>The latest update on suicide prevention from the health scrutiny panel at City
of Wolverhampton Council (June 2019), shows that 66 deaths were registered as suicides
for the period of 2015-17 and 54 of these (82%) were male.</p><p> </p><p>In ‘Making
Wolverhampton a Suicide Safer Community: Wolverhampton Suicide Prevention Strategy
2016–2020’, City of Wolverhampton Council has set the following aims to reduce suicides:</p><p>
</p><p>- provide a multi-agency approach to suicide prevention across Wolverhampton;</p><p>-
raise awareness of suicide, compelling organisations and the community to take positive
action;</p><p>- upskill workforces through information and knowledge enabling them
to better understand and respond to poor mental wellbeing and suicide ideation;</p><p>-
influence services and policies so that suicide prevention is robustly considered
and embedded in routine business; and</p><p>- provide a coordinated suicide support
offer which can be accessed by services and communities.</p><p> </p>
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