Members will remember that the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, so ably chaired by Dai Lloyd, undertook a major inquiry into suicide prevention in Wales in 2018 and produced a report called 'Everybody's Business'. As part of that inquiry, we looked carefully at the support available for those bereaved by suicide, including meeting with people living with suicide loss.

I've spoken before in this Chamber about the committee's visit to the Jacob Abraham Foundation in Cardiff where we met a group of relatives, all of whom had lost sons, husbands, fathers, and brothers to suicide. One lady had lost not one but two sons to suicide—an absolutely heartbreaking reminder of the risk that suicide bereavement poses. Shockingly, not one of those families had received any specialist support, apart from the support offered by the foundation. They had not even been able to access 'Help is at hand Cymru', the excellent Welsh Government booklet on suicide bereavement. Now, the Jacob Abraham Foundation receives no statutory funds and has been operating on a hand-to-mouth basis since it was set up by Nicola Abraham following the death of her son Jacob by suicide in 2015. In 'Everybody's Business', the committee said very clearly, and I quote:

'We were staggered to hear of the lack of support available to those bereaved by...suicide.'

That is why the committee went on to make three recommendations on bereavement support. We called for a Wales-wide postvention pathway for suicide to be taken forward as an immediate priority. We called for 'Help is at hand Cymru' to be more actively promoted, and we called for Welsh Government to give active consideration to providing funding for support groups for those bereaved by suicide. We made those recommendations back in November 2018, and now, more than a year on, nowhere near enough has changed.

I welcomed the £500,000 additional funding made available in response to the health committee's report to fund the role of a new national suicide prevention lead in Wales and regional co-ordinators. I recognise that there's been a delay in appointing that person, which has slowed progress, but now that an appointment has been made, we really need to move at pace. I welcome, too, the 1,500 copies of 'Help is at hand Cymru' that the Welsh Government got printed following our report, but I am still meeting people bereaved by suicide who are not being signposted or given this vital resource. And there has been no investment in support groups and, indeed, the final survivors of bereavement by suicide group in Wales has, in fact, closed.

Whenever I have raised my concerns about suicide bereavement in the past year, I've been pointed to Welsh Government's bereavement services review, although I have said time and time again that I don't think we needed a review to tell us that suicide bereavement services are woefully inadequate in Wales. That review has now reported, and I have to say, I am really disappointed with it. I just do not recognise the picture it paints of the support it claims is out there for suicide bereavement. Apparently, there are six services offering suicide bereavement support in Torfaen. Caerphilly, Cardiff, Flintshire, Pembrokeshire, and Rhondda Cynon Taf fare even better with eight each. Who knew? Certainly not the people bereaved by suicide that I have met. To be fair to the report, it is clear that the majority—81 per cent of providers—are offering information and support and signposting to other support services, which, for me, raises many questions about what this suicide support looks like. Is it a flyer, an e-mail, a phone call? And shouldn't the report have been clear about what kind of support was being offered and by whom? We know from the report that specialist support is thin on the ground, but it tells us nothing about who is delivering that support, how long people have to wait for it or anything about the quality of services or, indeed, anything else about it.

The Minister knows that young suicide is a cause very close to my heart. The 2 Wish Upon a Star charity provides bereavement support for families who lose a child or young adult in a sudden and traumatic way, including through suicide. It was set up by Rhian Mannings, following the death of her baby son, George, which was followed by the tragic suicide of her husband, Paul, just five days later. Just like Nicola Abraham, Rhian has used her lived experience of suicide bereavement to try to prevent other families going through what she has done. They are doing really fantastic work across Wales. The memory boxes they provide for families whose child has died in hospital provide a little comfort at a time that is undoubtedly the darkest any parent will ever experience. Their ability to offer support shortly after the bereavement, or whenever that support is needed, is literally, for some families, a life saver. They also provide much needed support for bereaved siblings. Yet, despite taking referrals from every health board in Wales, and providing a service in every A&E department and most critical care departments, 2 Wish Upon a Star receives not a penny of public funding from any of the health boards. That is just wrong.