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BERENICE NADIKA BELL · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 22 Nov 2021•Inner North London

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Concerns
3

Raised in this report

Recipients
3

Named on the report

Responses found
1

Of 3 recipients

Stated actions
6

Described in responses

Recipients and published responses

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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised3

  1. The single largest cause of death among people under 35 in the UK
  2. Access to various family and mental health professionals
  3. Access to services before death among children who subsequently died from the same cause
Responses linked to these concerns

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Actions described in response An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.5

  1. Action

    Consider the Law Commission’s recommendations on new or replacement offences for harmful online communications, including self-harm communications.

    Stated by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and SportStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 30 November 2021.
  2. Action

    Continue engaging suicide and self-harm prevention stakeholders through wider suicide prevention and online safety work.

    Stated by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and SportStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 30 November 2021.
  3. Action

    Introduce the Online Safety Bill as soon as possible after considering the Joint Committee’s recommendations.

    Stated by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and SportStated plannedThe respondent said that this action was planned when they made their response on 30 November 2021.

Source evidence

How this individual concern was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

The single largest cause of death among people under 35 in the UK

Wider context from the report

“(1) ████████ is the single largest cause of death in the UK for people under 35. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

No recurring-concern membership is currently published.

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How this individual concern was interpreted

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Access to various family and mental health professionals

Wider context from the report

“(2) Evidence was provided by the family that Berenice had accessed various ████████ family and mental health professionals. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

No recurring-concern membership is currently published.

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How this individual concern was interpreted

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Access to services before death among children who subsequently died from the same cause

Wider context from the report

“(3) The family have discovered through a support group that other parents who have lost their children to ████████ have also discovered, after the deaths of their children, that their own children were also accessing ████████ before they died. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

No recurring-concern membership is currently published.

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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Consider the Law Commission’s recommendations on new or replacement offences for harmful online communications, including self-harm communications.

Verbatim wording from the response

“We are also ensuring that criminal law is fit for purpose to account for harmful and dangerous communications online. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport sponsored a Law Commission review of harmful online communications. As part of this review, the government asked the Law Commission to examine how the criminal law will address the encouragement or assistance of self-harm. The Law Commission has published its final report, recommending several new or replacement offences to capture these types of communications online, including a new self-harm offence. The government is considering the Law Commission’s recommendations and will set out our position in due course.”

Source location

2021-0404-Response-from-Dept-for-Digital-Culture-Media-Sport_Published.pdf
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Published 30 November 2021

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Continue engaging suicide and self-harm prevention stakeholders through wider suicide prevention and online safety work.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The Department for Health and Social Care’s strategic partnership with suicide and self-harm prevention experts, led by the Samaritans, continues to tackle this content and support vulnerable users of their platforms. This partnership is undertaking research to develop our understanding of harmful suicide and self-harm content, produce guidance for industry and establish an advice and reporting service. Samaritans have also released Managing self-harm and suicide content online, a set of guidelines for sites and platforms hosting user-generated content, which sets out a framework of best practice principles to support platforms to manage self-harm and suicide content in a safe and sensitive way. The government continues to engage with these stakeholders as part of wider suicide prevention work and the online safety framework.”

Source location

2021-0404-Response-from-Dept-for-Digital-Culture-Media-Sport_Published.pdf
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Published 30 November 2021

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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Introduce the Online Safety Bill as soon as possible after considering the Joint Committee’s recommendations.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The draft Bill has been subject to pre-legislative scrutiny by a Joint Committee. The Joint Committee reported with their recommendations on 14 December. We will now fully consider the Committee’s recommendations and are committed to introducing the Bill as soon as possible after that. In the meantime we are working closely with Ofcom to ensure that the implementation of the framework is as short as possible, following passage of the legislation.”

Source location

2021-0404-Response-from-Dept-for-Digital-Culture-Media-Sport_Published.pdf
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Published 30 November 2021

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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Sponsor a Law Commission review of how criminal law should address encouragement or assistance of self-harm online.

Verbatim wording from the response

“We are also ensuring that criminal law is fit for purpose to account for harmful and dangerous communications online. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport sponsored a Law Commission review of harmful online communications. As part of this review, the government asked the Law Commission to examine how the criminal law will address the encouragement or assistance of self-harm. The Law Commission has published its final report, recommending several new or replacement offences to capture these types of communications online, including a new self-harm offence. The government is considering the Law Commission’s recommendations and will set out our position in due course.”

Source location

2021-0404-Response-from-Dept-for-Digital-Culture-Media-Sport_Published.pdf
Page 3 · response
Published 30 November 2021

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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Work with Ofcom to minimise the time required to implement the online safety framework after legislation is passed.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The draft Bill has been subject to pre-legislative scrutiny by a Joint Committee. The Joint Committee reported with their recommendations on 14 December. We will now fully consider the Committee’s recommendations and are committed to introducing the Bill as soon as possible after that. In the meantime we are working closely with Ofcom to ensure that the implementation of the framework is as short as possible, following passage of the legislation.”

Source location

2021-0404-Response-from-Dept-for-Digital-Culture-Media-Sport_Published.pdf
Page 2 · response
Published 30 November 2021

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Other statements in published responses

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Recipient-stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.1

  1. 1

    Fully consider the Joint Committee’s recommendations on the draft Online Safety Bill.

    Stated by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and SportStated plannedThe respondent said that this action was planned when they made their response on 30 November 2021.

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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Fully consider the Joint Committee’s recommendations on the draft Online Safety Bill.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The draft Bill has been subject to pre-legislative scrutiny by a Joint Committee. The Joint Committee reported with their recommendations on 14 December. We will now fully consider the Committee’s recommendations and are committed to introducing the Bill as soon as possible after that. In the meantime we are working closely with Ofcom to ensure that the implementation of the framework is as short as possible, following passage of the legislation.”

Source location

2021-0404-Response-from-Dept-for-Digital-Culture-Media-Sport_Published.pdf
Page 2 · response
Published 30 November 2021

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