Consultation open for draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy

The National Suicide Prevention Office (NSPO) has released the draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy (Advice on the Strategy). It brings together first-hand evidence provided by people with lived and living experience of suicide, the latest research, and recommendations from existing inquiries and reports to lay out a path that will deliver a reduction in the number of lives lost to suicide nationally.

The Advice on the Strategy has been designed to be used by governments, service providers and communities to create an effective comprehensive suicide prevention system that:

• prevents people from reaching suicidal distress
• ensures that supports are accessible, compassionate and effective, and
• is sustained by collective effort from governments, sectors beyond health, service providers and communities.

Public consultation is now open for Advice on the Strategy, which aims to test the recommended actions with people with a lived experience of suicide, service providers, researchers and communities to:

• Understand if the advice provided is what stakeholders hope to see in government action on suicide prevention.
• Ensure the actions recommended are practical and will be effective on the ground in service delivery and community.
• Seek to understand the actions that stakeholders find a priority for suicide prevention.

The feedback received through this public consultation process will inform advice to Government from the National Suicide Prevention Office on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy.

Public consultation closes on midnight Sunday, 27 October 2024.

View the Advice on the Strategy and participate in consultation.