# Post Suicide Bereavement Support

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Cambridgeshire County Council](/buyers/cambridgeshire-county-council/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £15,000
- Published: 19 September 2018
- Planned start: 1 October 2018
- Planned end: 31 March 2020
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 6fad3e1d-f8cd-4002-8981-390ae9c8aba3-241671
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-4a58514c-0ba0-4f83-b467-d40b87887ca9

## Description

The rate of deaths by suicide is 9\.1 per 100,000 \(3 year average, 2013-15\) in Cambridgeshire, equating to 155 deaths across the 3 years\. By 2020/21, the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health set the ambition that the number of people taking their own lives will be reduced by 10% nationally compared to 2016/17 levels\. Locally there is an ambition to strive for 'Zero Suicides'\. A range of work is being undertaken locally to prevent deaths by suicide, coordinated by the multi-agency suicide prevention group\. Friends and relatives of people who die by suicide have a 1 in 10 risk of making a suicide attempt after their loss\. A conservative estimate is that 10 people are directly affected by each suicide death\. The lasting impact can be huge in terms of their own health outcomes, isolation and work/education\. Research by Prof Julie Cerel found that 130 people directly knew the person with 25 of these being in a great deal of distress and needing services and support to get through intense emotions\. As part of the implementation of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Suicide Prevention Strategy a post-suicide bereavement service was set up in 2017\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6fad3e1d-f8cd-4002-8981-390ae9c8aba3-241671)