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United with the frontline

Join the call for Government to properly resource, support and train emergency responders in suicide prevention

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Three in four people who die by suicide aren’t in touch with mental health services in the year before they die. But many people are in touch with other frontline workers.

And emergency responders such as ambulance staff, police and firefighters are often first on the scene when someone is in suicidal crisis. Which is why we're calling on the Government to make sure that all emergency service workers are trained in suicide prevention, which could have a huge impact on saving lives.

How can I support the campaign?

Right now, we have the numbers to move our communities and local MPs to action. Our new figures show just how many times emergency services were called out in 2024, by region.

If we all write to our local newspaper editors, sharing the local stats, we could create a flurry of local press activity across England that takes us a step closer to making sure all emergency responders have the support and training they need to spot the signs and provide the right help to anyone in crisis. Let's all take action together now:

Email your local newspaper editors

Anyone struggling with thoughts of suicide, and the emergency services workers who could help, are both being failed right now. Emergency responders are often overstretched, under resourced, and many won’t have had the support or training they need to spot someone in suicidal crisis and help them.

We need to call on the Government to make sure that all emergency workers have the support and resources they need to get proper suicide prevention training and can put it into action to help save lives.

Any of us who are struggling, united with the frontline, have real power to hold the Government to account – and let them know that all of us deserve better.

We are calling on the Government to:

  • Make suicide prevention training across all emergency services mandatory.
  • Take action to make sure that frontline services are properly resourced, and staff supported, so that workers can attend training and put into action what they’ve learnt, to help save lives that could be lost to suicide.

How MPs can support the campaign

MPs can support the campaign by contacting the Ministers for each of the emergency services, using the template letters below:

This campaign is focused on frontline workers in England, but we work across all four nations of the UK and also in Ireland to influence suicide prevention policy in a range of ways to achieve our mission that fewer people die by suicide.

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