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Interactive CPD Tool
Suicide Assessment and Safety Planning Tool
60 to 90 CPD minutes per assessment
Crisis:Emergency: 999 or A&ENHS 111 (option 2)Samaritans: 116 123SHOUT: text 85258
Suicide Assessment and Safety Planning Tool
This tool supports trained mental health practitioners to conduct a structured suicide risk inquiry and to develop a co-produced safety plan with the person, using the Stanley-Brown Safety Planning Intervention.
Crisis resources
- Immediate emergency: call 999 or attend A&E.
- Urgent NHS mental health support: call 111 and select the mental health option.
- Samaritans: 116 123 (free, 24 hours, every day).
- SHOUT crisis text line: text 85258 (free, 24 hours, every day).
- PAPYRUS HOPELINEUK (under 35s): 0800 068 4141.
Your local NHS crisis line (optional, saved for your future sessions)
Privacy notice
This tool runs entirely in your browser. No data leaves your device. Your responses are stored locally on this device only if you choose to save your progress.
Anonymisation
Use initials, identifiers or role descriptors. Do not include identifying information that would breach the person's confidentiality.
Disclaimer: for trained mental health practitioners only
- This tool is for trained mental health practitioners only.
- It is a structured aid to clinical conversation and recording. It does not predict outcomes, does not produce a risk score, and does not categorise risk as low, medium or high.
- Use alongside, not instead of, your clinical judgement, supervision, your employer's official risk and safety planning documentation, and local clinical policies.