The Latest Breaking News from self-harm

More than 40% of women seeking help from pregnancy counselling service had exposure to family or intimate partner violence

One in four Australian adults feel lonely, and the impacts can be dire. Loneliness increases our risks of depression, diabetes, dementia, self-harm and suicide. But likening it to a disease and proposals to treat it with a pill miss the point: we’ve been building for loneliness over many decades and…

Rates among boys doubled and girls continued to be over-represented in self-harm figures, researchers said

Government vowed to reduce female prison population four years ago but it is now expected to jump by a third

A prisons watchdog has said there has been an increase in incidents of self-harm among foreign prisoners at HMP Risley

Inquest into death of remand prisoner at HMP Chelmsford finds officers were unaware that access to razor blades should have been monitored

The number of foreign nationals harming themselves has risen at the Warrington jail, says a prisons watchdog

65.7% of remand prisoners in England and Wales who died by self-inflicted means were on suicide or self-harm watch

Noongar grandmother fears for boy’s safety if state government moves him from Banksia Hill juvenile centre to maximum security jail