Report - Moving towards a zero suicide society: How far can we go? (The Jordan Legacy, July 2023)

Summary

At the beginning of 2023, The Jordan Legacy launched a new strategy designed to raise the bar in terms of collective ambition in suicide prevention and to plot a course of collective practical action that can realise that ambition. This report is the first in a series summarising what is emerging from this action research project, as well as the organisation's wider, ongoing action learning initiatives, focusing on reducing the number of suicides in the UK.

The researchers asked people affected by suicide to provide responses to two key questions:

• How can we significantly reduce the annual number of suicides in the UK, from the 6000+ level it’s been at for 15 years?
• How far can we go?