Children: Suicide and Self-harm

Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds Excerpts

Tuesday 22nd January 2013 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

I thank the noble Baroness. In fact, I do not have the statistics in front of me, so I will write to her. However, we do of course recognise the incredibly valuable work of school nurses and others in performing a pastoral role within schools.

[The Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds]

My Lords, from successive reports, has the Minister noted the role of alcohol in the phalanx of causes of self-harm among children? What is being done to reduce the availability of alcohol to teenagers?