Families are being left without support after a suicide – and it’s causing more deaths
Those bereaved by suicide have a 65 per cent increased risk of taking their own lives. So why is there not more funding for support after tragedy strikes?
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It’s part two of our For Fact’s Sake podcast mini series on the election year.
In this episode we spoke to Tori Marland, Deputy Editor for Europe for Logically Facts, about the potential trends in disinformation that we will likely see in the election campaign in the UK.
And in our new ‘Truth Tracker’ segment, we discuss what is really known about Kate Middleton amidst the controversy around her health and whereabouts.
Show notes:
- See more of Tori’s work at Logically Facts here.
- Our explainer on 15 minute cities is here.
Ferret Fact Service (FFS) is a non-partisan fact checker, and signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers’ code of principles.
All the sources used in our checks are publicly available and the FFS fact-checking methodology can be viewed here.
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