Suicide Prevention | Public Health Blackpool Council

Help for suicidal thoughts

If you feel like you want to die, it’s important to tell someone.

Samaritans

Call:

116 123 – 24/7

Email:

jo@samaritans.org

Mental Health
Urgent Response Line

0800 953 0110

If you need immediate help to stay safe, or are supporting someone who needs immediate help:

Call your GP – ask for an emergency appointment
Call 111 out of hours – they will help you find the support and help you need

If you have seriously harmed yourself – for example, by taking a drug overdose – call 999 for an ambulance or go straight to A&E. Or ask someone else to call 999 or take you to A&E.

For information on local crisis services, visit: https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/crisis

Staying
safe

This site offers ways to help keep people safer from thoughts of harm and suicide. It contains useful resources, including videos from people who have felt this way themselves.

Staying Safe

Suicide
prevention
training

Free suicide prevention online training course from the Zero Suicide Alliance.

This 20 minute course teaches people how to recognise the warning signs and safeguard someone who may be thinking about suicide.

Blackpool Mental Health Partnership

You can view the first newsletter for the Blackpool Mental Health Partnership Board by clicking the image to the right of this text. The newsletter has lots of information about the partnership, as well as support and advice focusing on prevention and information and for those in crisis. You can also access a number of different training resources.

PSHE

Personal, social, health and economic education is a school curriculum subject in England that focuses on strengthening the knowledge, skills, and connections to keep children and young people healthy and safe and prepare them for life and work.

Schools should refer to the DfE statutory guidance to inform their delivery.

In addition, below are resources designed to support you in your work within schools around implementation of relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. It includes the latest links to RSHE resources and trusted national organisations.

1. Consulting with parents and pupils, and developing policy
2. What to teach and how to teach it
3. Sustaining success

Key areas of RSHE

The introduction of statutory RSHE in September 2020 focuses on mandatory education in the following areas:

Mental wellbeing

Internet safety and harms

Physical health and fitness

Healthy eating

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Health and prevention

Basic first aid

Changing adolescent body

STI Symptom Checker

Unusual discharge
Pain, burning or increase in weeing
Rashes, lumps or blisters
Stinging, itching or tingling
Pain and/or bleeding during sex
Bleeding after sex

Pain in the testicles (balls)
Pain or tenderness in the lower tummy
Irregular bleeding
Strong, unpleasant smell from the vagina after sex
Painful swelling of penis, testicles or foreskin
Brown eggs on pubic or other body hair
No Symptoms

Get tested if you have any of these symptoms, a sexual partner has symptoms or you’re worried after having sex without a condom. Many STIs have no symptoms at all, like HIV. The only way to know for sure is to get tested.