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Online Safety Act: what are the new measures to protect children on social media?

Technology platforms operating in the UK now have a legal duty to protect young people from some of the more dangerous forms of online content. This includes pornography, content that encourages, promotes, or provides instructions for violence, promotion of self-harm and eating disorders. Those failing to comply face hefty fines.

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New levy on foreign students would be act of immense self-harm, Sadiq Khan warns Rachel Reeves

Mayor in Africa sparks new ‘red on red’ clash with Labour chancellor

Evening Standard

Man who urged vulnerable woman to kill herself and self-harm given hybrid order

Tyler Webb was handed a hybrid order at Leicester Crown Court for encouraging someone to self-harm and end their life.

Evening Standard

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Youth justice in crisis before teen's death: coroner

A coroner hearing an inquest for an Indigenous teen who fatally self-harmed in a youth detention says he might recommend another inquiry into the facility.

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'Animals treated better' than Indigenous teen: family

An Indigenous teen who fatally self-harmed in detention was subjected to "barbarous and criminal" neglect, his mother says as an inquest into his death resumes.

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‘Unconscious racism’ behind NSW police officer’s decision not to call ambulance for Indigenous prisoner, watchdog finds

Senior officer engaged in ‘serious misconduct’ in regional town when man was self-harming. He thought Aboriginal people tried to ‘manipulate the system’

The Guardian - AU

A perfect storm of errors meant Darren was placed in an unsafe cell. He died two days later

Experts say failure to remove known ligature points from the cells of high risk inmates is just one part of the ‘perverse situation’ in Australian jails

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Leaving oil in the ground an ‘act of national self-harm’, says Findlay

The Scottish Conservative leader said Scotland should use its own oil and gas instead of importing fossil fuels from abroad.

Evening Standard

We asked every Australian state why ligature points in jails had not been removed. Here are their responses

Prison authorities tell Guardian Australia what they are doing to make their inmates safe

The Guardian - AU

NHS trust cleared of corporate manslaughter after death of woman

North East London NHS Foundation Trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter after the death of Alice Figueiredo.

The Independent UK

Alice Figueiredo: NHS trust cleared of corporate manslaughter after Londoner, 22, took her own life

North East London NHS Foundation Trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter after the death of Alice Figueiredo

Evening Standard

Albanese hits out at Trump's 'economic self harm'

The Prime Minister has criticised US President Donald Trump's move to double tariffs on steel imports as "inappropriate" and an act of harm.

AAP

Anyone who assists self-harm could face five-year jail term under new plan

Ministers are seeking to broaden the law to criminalise assisting self-harm online or in person

The Independent UK

Assisting self-harm could result in five-year jail term under proposed offence

Ministers are seeking to broaden the law to criminalise assisting self-harm online or in person as part of the Crime and Policing Bill.

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FBI opens inquiry into 764, online group that sexually exploits and encourages minors to self-harm

Agency is investigating 250 people affiliated with networks that manipulate and threaten young victims in cyberspace

Evening Standard

Man admits urging vulnerable woman to seriously self-harm and to kill herself

Tyler Webb, 22, was the first person in the country to be charged with encouraging serious self-harm under the Online Safety Act 2023.

The Independent UK

LGB+ community more than twice as likely to self-harm or take their own lives, new data shows

New research from the ONS shows evidence that suicide rates are higher among the gay, lesbian and bisexual community; with a self-harm epidemic among the young LGB+ population

The Guardian - UK

Suicide and self-harm risk twice as high in LGB+ adults in England and Wales

Office for National Statistics for first time examines how estimated rates of self-harm and suicide differ by sexuality

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Evening Standard

People identifying as LGB+ ‘at higher risk’ of self-harm or suicide

The risk of suicide for LGB+ adults is estimated to be 2.2 times higher than for those identifying as straight or heterosexual.

Evening Standard

Deaf TikTok star overdosed on medication months before suicide, inquest hears

Imogen Nunn took a poisonous substance and died in Brighton, East Sussex, on New Year’s Day 2023.

Evening Standard

Positive drug test results at HMP Styal highest in women’s estate – inspectors

The rate of self-harm was the second highest at HMP Styal of all 12 women’s prisons.

The Guardian - UK

‘Basic lack of decency’ driving self-harm in women’s prisons, report says

Inspectorate points to challenges including ban on using washing machines for knickers and difficulties with family contact

The Independent UK

Lack of basic care for women in prison leading to self-harm, inspector warns

Chief prisons inspector Charlie Taylor urged for more to be done urgently to help women behind bars cope.

Fortune

Nearly a third of parents have considered suicide or self-harm due to the overwhelming stress of caregiving, survey says

"The level of stress and mental load on parents today has reached unacceptable heights, spurring detrimental outcomes."

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s really a very dark comedy’: Festen, the explosive opera based on the dinner-party-from-hell film

The Danish film about racism, child abuse and self-harm caused jaws to drop in the 90s. Can it work as opera? Absolutely, say lyricist Lee Hall and composer Mark-Anthony Turnage

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