I came across this paper from the International Journal of Social Welfare titled ‘Role of social welfare in European suicide prevention’ – happily with open access so freely available. I thought it was useful to share as it echoes some of my concerns about the move towards stigmatising those who receive welfare payments that is becoming the norm amongst politicians and journalists in this country (with few, notable, exceptions).
One of the aims of this paper was to
Evaluate attitudes towards the welfare system in 26 European countries and how they are related to suicide mortality, among both men and women.
Unsafe Spaces 