❓ Question on Notice regarding self-harm and attempted suicide incidents at Banksia Hill Detention Centre in 2018 and 2018-19. The answer provides specific numbers and definitions.
AnsweredQoN 2335Legislative Council
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I
refer to Banksia Hill Detention Centre, and I ask: (a) how many incidents of self-harm were there in: (i) 2018 (calendar year); and (ii) 2018-19 (financial year); and (b) how many attempted suicides were there in: (i) 2018 (calendar year); and (ii) 2018-19 (financial year)?
refer to Banksia Hill Detention Centre, and I ask: (a) how many incidents of self-harm were there in: (i) 2018 (calendar year); and (ii) 2018-19 (financial year); and (b) how many attempted suicides were there in: (i) 2018 (calendar year); and (ii) 2018-19 (financial year)?
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Answered
3 September 2019
Responded by
Minister for Environment representing the Minister for Corrective Services
Response time
9 days
(a)(i) 172, there were no instances of Serious Self-harm.
(ii) 146, there were no instances of Serious Self-harm.
(b)(i) Nil.
(ii) 1.
Self-harm includes self-injury and self-poisoning and is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body most often done without suicidal intentions.
Serious self-harm relates to the act of self-harm that requires either overnight hospitalisation in a medical facility (including prison clinic/infirmary), or ongoing medical treatment.
Attempted Suicide is the act of self-harm whereby a person attempts to take their own life. Attempted suicides include such examples as attempted hanging, attempted drug overdose, attempted poisoning (other than drugs), serious self-harm (ie extensive mutilation of ones own body) and/or jumping from an elevated platform where the intent of the act was to cause self-harm or death.
(ii) 146, there were no instances of Serious Self-harm.
(b)(i) Nil.
(ii) 1.
Self-harm includes self-injury and self-poisoning and is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body most often done without suicidal intentions.
Serious self-harm relates to the act of self-harm that requires either overnight hospitalisation in a medical facility (including prison clinic/infirmary), or ongoing medical treatment.
Attempted Suicide is the act of self-harm whereby a person attempts to take their own life. Attempted suicides include such examples as attempted hanging, attempted drug overdose, attempted poisoning (other than drugs), serious self-harm (ie extensive mutilation of ones own body) and/or jumping from an elevated platform where the intent of the act was to cause self-harm or death.
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