Self-harm
Commons · Question 31691 · Tabled 13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Ayoub Khan
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) people and (b) charities providing support to people that (i) have self-harmed and (ii) are considering self-harming are not criminalised; and what guidance she provide
Answer
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones, 28 Feb 2025
Section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023 gave partial effect to a Law Commission recommendation to create an offence of encouraging or assisting self-harm. The proposed new offence of encouraging or assisting serious self-harm intends to replace (in so f...