Jay's Personalised Safety Planning Toolkit: A guide to support meaningful safety planning for self-harm and suicide (May 2026)

Summary

Jay’s Personalised Safety Planning Toolkit is a co‑designed set of materials created with researchers, people with lived experience of suicide and self‑harm, and healthcare professionals. It offers a more personalised approach to safety planning within health and care settings, supporting meaningful conversations around self‑harm and suicide.

Inspired by the family of Jaymie Mart, known as Jay, who died by suicide in 2012 at the age of 32, the toolkit – which was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) – offers clear, practical guidance to help adults create and review personalised safety plans.