The Office for National Statistics published the UK suicide rates for 2014 on the 4th February 2016. These new figures suggest an increase in suicide rates in children and young people in 2014, with up to two children (aged 10–14 years) and 15 young people (aged 15–19 years) in the UK committing suicide each month.
Professor Paul Stallard from the Univeristy of Bath's Department for Health, has written a letter in the Lancet on this topic: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30204-5/abstract
Professor Stallard has conducted substantial NIHR funded research (PACES) based in the South West on effective school-based universal suicide prevention programmes, such as FRIENDS, and he urges more investment in these programmes.