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Saman Javed

‘It is too late to help my own brother’: Sajid Javid calls for improved suicide prevention

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Promoting self-harm online should be made a criminal offence, Sajid Javid has said.

The former health secretary has called on the government to introduce a renewed 10-year suicide prevention strategy as he reflected on his eldest brother Tariq’s suicide on World Mental Health Day (10 October).

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