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4 mental health conditions that increase the risk of self-harm

Self-harm is any behaviour where an individual causes harm to themselves, usually as a way to help cope with difficult or distressing thoughts and feelings. It most frequently takes the form of cutting, burning or overdose.

The Times of India

The tower is crumbling and is a 'danger to staff' and prisoners say they felt safer during Covid: Inside Strangeways this year

On the positive side, the prison's gym service has been offering badminton, football, classes for elderly, spin classes and tennis, as well as 'excellent equipment'.

Manchester Evening News

Violence and 'severe' staff shortages at prison housing Merseyside inmates

The latest report into HMP Berwyn contained four priority concerns

Liverpool Echo

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Suicide attempts and self-harm ‘part and parcel of everyday life in a school’

A former Children’s Commissioner told peers there is a large legacy of children with increased mental health needs in the wake of the pandemic.

The Independent UK

FOI documents show the NT is breaching its own independent monitoring policy at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre

Freedom of Information documents reveal the NT government is failing to adhere to its own independent monitoring policy at a time when self-harm incidents are surging inside its youth detention facilities.

ABC News

Tina, 14, is self-harming. How can a therapist win her trust that others can help?

Cutting is a response to intense feelings, with physical pain taking the place of psychic pain

The Guardian - AU

Cost of abortions causing Queensland women to consider self-harm, study reveals

More than 40% of women seeking help from pregnancy counselling service had exposure to family or intimate partner violence

The Guardian - AU

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1 in 4 Australians is lonely. Quality green spaces in our cities offer a solution

One in four Australian adults feel lonely, and the impacts can be dire. Loneliness increases our risks of depression, diabetes, dementia, self-harm and suicide. But likening it to a disease and proposals to treat it with a pill miss the point: we’ve been building for loneliness over many decades and…

The Conversation

Student police officer saved man's life with 'catastrophic' stomach injury in Newcastle

PC Peter Cudd attended an escalating incident in High Heaton where a man was reported to have threatened self-harm and was reportedly in possession of a knife

Chronicle Live

Boys self harming in WA adult prison unit

A group of youth detainees moved to a standalone facility at an adult prison in Perth have repeatedly attempted to harm themselves at the new unit.

AAP

WA government says transfer of Banksia Hill detainees to Casuarina has 'worked'

The West Australian government claims the relocation of young offenders to an adult prison has "worked", despite reports of self-harm emerging, and a retired judge saying the transfer represents a "broken system".

ABC News

Children needing NHS mental health services in England ‘must be seen in four weeks’

Study calls for £1billion injection into children's care with guarantee of next-day consultations for those at greatest risk of self-harm or suicide

Wales Online

Serious self-harm among children in care 'trebled' during lockdowns

Rates among boys doubled and girls continued to be over-represented in self-harm figures, researchers said

Wales Online

‘Alarming’ increase in self-harm in women’s prisons as more vulnerable people to be jailed, report says

Government vowed to reduce female prison population four years ago but it is now expected to jump by a third

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Liverpool Echo

Prisoners 'self-harming' as wait for deportations is 'too long'

A prisons watchdog has said there has been an increase in incidents of self-harm among foreign prisoners at HMP Risley

The Guardian - UK

Prison criticised after suicide watch inmate who died was allowed razors

Inquest into death of remand prisoner at HMP Chelmsford finds officers were unaware that access to razor blades should have been monitored

Manchester Evening News

Inmates are desperate to be deported - but it's taking too long, report into HMP Risley reveals

The number of foreign nationals harming themselves has risen at the Warrington jail, says a prisons watchdog

The Guardian - UK

Two-thirds of remand prisoners who took own lives were on care plans, FoI reveals

65.7% of remand prisoners in England and Wales who died by self-inflicted means were on suicide or self-harm watch

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The Guardian - AU

Woman fears her teen grandson may die if transferred with other boys to WA adult prison

Noongar grandmother fears for boy’s safety if state government moves him from Banksia Hill juvenile centre to maximum security jail

The National (Scotland)

Minister vows to take 'decisive action' over rise in self-harm among children

THE Scottish Government is taking “decisive action” to bring down the number of children being admitted to hospital with self-harm-related…

The Independent UK

Nick Kyrgios’s mother says Andy Murray helped ‘turn my son’s life around’

Murray raised concerns about Kyrgios’ health after ‘seeing some evidence of self-harm’

The Guardian - UK

I’ve always worried about everything. But has my tortured thinking become a form of self-harm?

I’ve never understood why people choose to hurt themselves but now I wonder if wallowing in worry is my version of that, writes Adrian Chiles

Belfast Live

'Horrific' scale of self-harm cases at hospitals in Northern Ireland

An MLA described the figures as "horrific" and expressed concern over the absence of a Stormont Executive to help tackle the issue

The Independent UK

Experimental brain test on Canadian girl with autism stuns researchers trying to prevent severe self-harm

‘As scary as it is to drill into their brain and have this big piece hanging out of their chest ... it’s worth it,’ said the 9-year-old’s mother in an interview

Birmingham Post

Grant Shapps tells unions that rail strikes an 'act of huge self-harm'

Labour said ministers needed to step in to prevent the network 'grinding to a halt'

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