People in Coventry and Warwickshire were invited to have a say on the region's approach to prevent suicide.
Warwickshire County Council and Coventry City Council are working together with other local organisations and services to create a new joint approach to providing information, services and support across the area to help prevent suicide.
A new strategy will outline how local organisations and services will work together to achieve the vision that no one in Coventry and Warwickshire ever feels that suicide is their only option.
Coventry and Warwickshire Suicide Prevention Partnership will use this strategy to make positive change and asked for opinions to ensure the approach will have a positive impact.
The following different engagement opportunities were made available as part of the development of the Coventry and Warwickshire Suicide Prevention Strategy:
Local strategic partnerships: a number of local partnership boards were engaged with developing the vision and approach for the Suicide Prevention strategy.
Stakeholder workshops: Through a series of workshops, local organisations and services told us that our approach to suicide prevention across Coventry and Warwickshire needs to:
Public engagement survey: This engagement process concluded that the strategic vision and priorities were largely consistent with what respondents felt was needed. There was an emphasis on societal risk factors and prevention at the earliest opportunity. Specific themes were identified in relation to:
Overall, our engagement activities concluded that there was overall agreement with the ambitions and priorities of the new suicide prevention strategy.
A significant amount of rich information was gathered from both organisations and individuals through this process. This will be used to inform the suicide prevention delivery planning process.
Where appropriate, the feedback from the public engagement survey will be reflected in the suicide prevention work programme, with specific actions developed in response to this.
The new Coventry and Warwickshire Suicide Prevention Strategy 2023-2030 was endorsed by both the Coventry and Warwickshire Health and Wellbeing Boards in January 2023. Please click on the links below for more information.
Warwickshire Health and Wellbeing Board: 11 January 2023. (Agenda item 6)
Coventry Health and Wellbeing Board: 23 January 2023. (Agenda item 8)
A further paper was submitted to Warwickshire County Council’s Cabinet in April 2023 to confirm the Council’s approval of the Strategy.
The published version of the Strategy is currently being finalised and will be available on the WCC website once published.
Following analysis of feedback a report with recommendations was considered by Warwickshire County Council Cabinet on 18 April 2023.
The meeting agenda, reports and decisions can be viewed by clicking on this link.
People in Coventry and Warwickshire are invited to have a say on the region's approach to prevent suicide.
To improve support Warwickshire County Council and Coventry City Council are working together with other local organisations and services to create a new joint approach to providing information, services and support across the area to help prevent suicide. The new strategy will outline how local organisations and services will work together to achieve the vision that no one in Coventry and Warwickshire ever feels that suicide is their only option.
It is important that the views of people from all age groups and backgrounds who live and work in Coventry and Warwickshire are included in shaping this strategy. The ambitions and aims in the strategy are based on recommendations from the Coventry and Warwickshire Mental Health and Wellbeing Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), which involved residents across Coventry and Warwickshire in 2021. The JSNA can be found here: https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/directory-record/6791/coventry-and-warwickshire-mental-health-needs-assessment-2021-
Coventry and Warwickshire Suicide Prevention Partnership would like to hear YOUR thoughts on the suicide prevention strategy. The partnership will use this strategy to make positive change and needs your opinions to ensure the approach will have a positive impact.
This survey will help us to understand your thoughts on the Suicide Prevention Strategy and how it applies to you; this could be through your work or personal life experience. The survey will outline the strategy’s ambitions, priorities and how we want to want it to work for everyone. By completing the survey, you will let us know if our areas of focus are right for Coventry and Warwickshire.
Please be aware that this survey refers to suicide and suicide ideation. If you need to talk to someone, free support is available 24/7.
For further information and advice about suicide prevention and support available, please visit https://www.dearlife.org.uk/
How to take part
This survey has now closed. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts with us. We are completing our analysis and will update this page shortly. Please check back for updates.
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