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Teenager with autism died after reading about suicide on school iPad

Frances-Rose Thomas, 15, from Surrey, had accessed suicide-related material for months before taking her own life

A 15-year-old girl with autism took her own life after an “enormous and systemic failure” by her special-needs school left her with unfiltered access to online materials about suicide, a coroner has concluded.

Frances-Rose Thomas, who was known as Frankie, took steps to end her life at home in Witley in Surrey in September 2018, after earlier that day reading a story on an iPad provided by her school in which a character died by suicide.

In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email [email protected] or [email protected]. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org.

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