Colleagues working in Child Death Review are invited to an upcoming study day hosted by the West Midlands Child Death Review Network, focusing on suicide prevention.

The session will share information from recent review activity and highlight themes emerging from partnership learning, with time for discussion around prevention, early identification, and multi‑agency response.

The session looks to bring together professionals from Education, Policing, Health, Social Care, Public Health, CAMHS, and the wider third sector to support shared learning and joined‑up working. It builds on previous system‑wide learning, including simulation activity exploring a teenage suicide and recent analytical work reviewing suicide data over the past five years.

Key areas for exploration include:

• Local support provision and how simple and accessible pathways are for children, young people, and families
• Suicide surveillance and data connectivity, including joined‑up working and reflection on national learning
• Neurodiversity provision and how needs are identified and supported
• The wider suicide prevention strategy
• Support within schools, including proactive conversations to normalise mental health support
• Suicide awareness and professional prevention training

There will also be reflection on learning related to online activity prior to suicide and variations in access and response.

Key questions for discussion:

• What does good practice look like?
• How has learning impacted change?
• What are the early warning signs and how do we intervene?
• How effective are school alerts and information‑sharing processes?
• What support is available for families, before, during, and after a crisis?

This study day aims to support a deeper, practice‑focused exploration of suicide prevention, ensuring learning translates into meaningful improvements across services.

Venue details

Tally Ho Sports and Conference Centre, Lord Knights Building (B5 7RN), Edgbaston

Cost and refreshments
This event is free to attend; however, places are limited. If you register and later find that you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking so the place can be offered to someone else.

Refreshments are not provided – please see Useful Venue Info for parking and refreshment availability details

Registration

To attend this study day you are required to register please / people not on the register will not be permitted.

To ensure the day is truly multi disciplinary we have attempted to spead the ticket availbilty across professional groups.

Should your professional group become sold out please contact us and we will attempt to accomodate where possible.