Suicide Prevention Consortium

The Suicide Prevention Consortium is a collaboration between the NSPA, Samaritans, Support After Suicide Partnership (SASP), WithYou and people with lived experience. It aims to highlight suicide as an inequalities issue and influence policy and practice to address these inequalities.

We use the knowledge of our members and the voices of people with lived experience to influence policymakers to improve suicide prevention in England.

The Consortium was launched in 2021 by the Department of Health and Social Care, as part of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Health and Wellbeing Alliance (VCSE HW Alliance). The programme of work ran from 2021-25.

The VCSE HW Alliance is made up of 19 members from across the voluntary sector in England. It sought to improve the health and wellbeing of communities through projects and research to inform national policy development and delivery. It had a particular focus on identifying and reducing health inequalities.

2026

• How could the 10 Year Health Plan support suicide prevention?

2025

• Suicide prevention principles: from policy to practice

2024

• Partners in Prevention
• Blog series: exploring suicide and stigma with different communities
  – Gypsy people and suicide
  – New Travellers and suicide
  – Roma people and suicide
  – Showmen and suicide
• Exploring experiences of accessing support for alcohol issues and suicidal ideation
• ‘Tomorrow is too late’: suicide prevention support for people with no fixed address

2023

• Alcohol and suicide: insights from LGBTQ+ communities’ experiences
• Insights from experience: economic disadvantage, suicide and self-harm

2022

• Insights from experience: alcohol and suicide
• Lived experience insights to inform the refreshed National Suicide Prevention Strategy