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Child mental health: suicidal thoughts
NSPCC Learning has published a Helplines insight briefing on young people’s experiences of suicidal thoughts and feelings. The briefing uses insights from 18,981 Childline counselling sessions in 2024/25 sharing young people’s varied experiences of suicidal thoughts and feelings. In 80% of these, young people were seeking support outside of a crisis. Young people shared a wide range of experiences including; when these thoughts and feelings occur; attempts at help seeking; unhelpful responses from others; and young people’s different coping mechanisms. Professionals can use these insights to consider how they might respond to and support young people if they talk about thoughts and feelings like this.
Read the briefing: Young people’s experiences of suicidal thoughts and feelings