Suicide: Bereavement Counselling

(asked on 30th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timescale is for rolling out bereavement services for families bereaved by suicide.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 4th February 2019

Funding for mental health will increase by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24, which includes funding to ensure bereavement support in every part of the country by 2023/24. The implementation programme noted in the Long Term Plan will contain further details on the roll-out of these services.

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