Submission to Strategy to Prevent Suicide in New Zealand

Netsafe’s submission to the Ministry of Health’s ‘Strategy to Prevent Suicide in New Zealand’ public consultation in 2017.

This submission focuses on two areas:-

1. Improving support for helpline services, such as Netsafe’s; and
2. Ensuring that the role of digital technology in increasing or decreasing the incidenceof suicidal behaviour is explicitly included in the strategy.