Reducing Suicide and Deliberate Self Harm
Exploring experience: a discussion process
Appendix 2
Participants in the discussion process
Education
New Community Schools: focus group with Integration Managers, individual visits with 2 further Integration Managers; contacts with 2 others by phone and letter
Schools Guidance Network: focus group
Strathclyde Police
Chief Superintendent and Inspector with mental health brief
Chief Inspector at Glasgow Sheriff Court
Court Liaison Team
Chief Inspector and Duty Officer, A Division
Training Officer at Strathclyde Police Training College
Scottish Prison Service
Polmont Young Offenders Institution: Deputy Governor; Health Centre Manager; Staff group, including Prison Officer and Clinical Service Manager for Mental Health Team
Barlinnie: Training and Development Officer
Cornton Vale Prison: Head of Health Care
Mental health services
Focus groups / discussions with:
Liaison psychiatrists
LHCC: 2 GPs, 3 clinicians, LHCC manager, social workers, facilities and operational support managers, clinical governance co-ordinator
Multi cultural health workers and co-ordinators in Glasgow, including staff who work with asylum seekers
A local mental health service network in Glasgow
A community organisation supporting women from black and ethnic minority communities
Phone lines
Individuals were contacted through:
Penumbra's self harm support network
Big Step which supports young people who were in care
Wounded Wing, a mutual support group for people who self harm
Papyrus, a UK wide support network for families affected by suicide and self harm, which led to meetings with three local groups, one exclusively of carers and two mixed forums involving carers, users and professionals
Media
Press
The Herald
Evening News
Press and Journal
Radio
Real Radio
BBC Radio Scotland
Northsound Radio
Forth FM
Television
Grampian TV
BBC TV