Intequal

Our work in suicide prevention

The IMH works with young people to share knowledge and generate ideas, recognising user experience as essential to shape, challenge and champion the work that they do. It also partners the Centre for Human Brain Health also based at the University, aimed at improving diagnosis and interventions using the state-of-the-art technology.

The strength of the IMH lies in its close collaboration with other academics and researchers, health partners and professionals, and charities and service providers.  It is through this shared knowledge and understanding that it aims to make a lasting impact to improve the care and outcomes for young people suffering from problems in their mental health.

We have a safeguarding team to protect learners experiencing difficulties with their mental health and other matters. Cases like this can include learners being suicidal. We have a strict reporting process and risk assessment system in place to monitor risk levels and help learners.

Our current priorities

Our priorities are keeping learners safe, supporting them throughout their apprenticeship, and ensuring we provide the resources available to help those who need it. Resources are provided and tailored to all safeguarding cases and the needs of that person.

Our current challenges

A challenge faced recently is the difficulty making cross country reports to the emergency services.  We have also noticed an increase in the number of safeguarding cases, and the complexity/severity of cases. Due to this we are looking to expand the resources available to the team.