Authors Louis Appleby, Nav Kapur, Jenny Shaw, Pauline Turnbull, Kirsten Windfuhr, Saied Ibrahim, Cathryn Rodway, Su-Gwan Tham
Published by University of Manchester, May 2016
SUMMARY
Suicide is the biggest killer of young people in the UK. An average of 428 under-25s took their own lives each year in England between 2003 and 2013. Of these, 137 were aged under 20, and 60 were under-18s. Researchers at the University of Manchester's Centre for Mental Health and Safety wanted to examine the experiences leading to suicide in children and young people and find out whether specific experiences such as bullying, abuse, and internet and social media use are linked to suicide in the young.
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