Closed petition: Make suicide awareness mandatory for all secondary schools and sixth forms

Closed on 5 August 2025

We would like the Government to implement suicide awareness to make it a mandatory part of learning for all secondary schools as part of their timetabled, curricular learning. There could be group discussions and presentations about this as part of relationships, literary and humanities lessons.

As someone working in education myself, in schools where I have worked and many others, learners only hear about these kinds of events from assembly or visitors. If we could bring this to the forefront and base lessons on this, we may be able to raise more awareness and save more lives in the long-term. If successful, we think there should be mandatory CPD training for teaching staff also, as to help them be more prepared when delivering lessons involving this topic.