His son Tom died a day after being judged 'low risk', in a final counselling session, Philip Pirie says.
concluded the approach to suicide risk assessment was "fundamentally flawed" and the use of terms such as "low risk... unreliable, open to misinterpretation and potentially unsafe".
Mr Mallen, whose son Edward killed himself in 2015, added one of the main issues was a lack of resources in the system, with some NHS therapists and counsellors rushed into a "processed-based" approach.Another co-signatory, Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park Sarah Olney, said: "We need these individualised assessments to go much deeper into what's going on with people.
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