The Welsh Government urgently needs to implement the recommendations in 'Everybody's Business' to develop a postvention strategy for suicide. That strategy should be co-produced with those with lived experience of suicide bereavement, and ensure that flexible support is available to people when they need it, whether that be in the immediate aftermath of a suicide, in six weeks, in two, three or 10 years down the line. It must also include timely access to specialist treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, which is often suffered by those bereaved by suicide, especially those who found their loved one. 

We are behind other parts of the UK on this. England already has a postvention pathway that could help inform ours, and there are fantastic examples of suicide bereavement support in England, many co-produced with bereaved families. But it is not just about supporting individuals; it is also about postvention in organisations where there has been a death by suicide, whether that be a school, a fire service, a hospital, GP practice or a railway station. We in this Assembly should know better than many the crucial importance of a postvention response to the loss of a friend and colleague to suicide. Particularly close to my heart is the need for suicide postvention in every school in Wales. In England, new guidance has been published, stating that a single suicide in a school should be treated as a potential cluster because young people are so vulnerable as a high-risk group for suicide.

I warmly commend the new guidance that the Welsh Government commissioned from Professor Ann John on talking about suicide with young people who are suicidal and self-harming, but it is not enough. We need to ensure that mental health and suicide prevention is embedded in the curriculum in Wales, to reach those young people who nobody knows is suicidal until they tragically take their own lives. We also must ensure that all schools undertake postvention following a suicide. I know that some schools have been quick to use the Samaritans' Step by Step postvention programme, but there are others I know of that, other than some counselling sessions, have done nothing at all. I'm delighted we now have Papyrus with a base in Wales, and we must ensure that schools draw on the organisations of them and the Samaritans. It cannot be an optional extra; it is too late when another young person has died. 

And, yes, this will take additional resources, but to anyone who says we can't afford it, I say we can't afford not to. It has been estimated that every suicide costs the public purse £1.6 million. How much better would it be to do what the Government talks so much about and invest in early intervention and support for those bereaved? We have some brilliant people and organisations working in this field in Wales. I want to pay tribute to Professor Ann John, who chairs the Welsh Government's national advisory group on suicide prevention. Ann works tirelessly, and I thank her for it. But we must ensure that people like Ann have the resources and the full commitment from Welsh Government to do the job that they so want to do. 

Social media gets a bad press a lot of the time, and I'm sure we can all understand this here. However, I have found Twitter a fantastic opportunity to network with like-minded people. Through Twitter, I have come to know a group of mothers who have lost children to suicide. Some of them are from Wales; others are from elsewhere in the UK. They have nicknamed themselves 'The Warrior Mums', and warriors they are, each and every day. 

So, I want to close today by paying a heartfelt tribute to all the warrior mums, the warrior dads, and to the courage of all those who are living with suicide loss every day. Our duty, Minister, is to honour their courage, by working with them to deliver the suicide bereavement support that is so desperately needed in Wales, and, in doing so, to save lives.