prevent fighting extremism alison woodcock pastoral director – carmel college 16 th september 2015
DESCRIPTION
Prevent is one of four work strands which make up the government‘s counter-terrorism strategy – CONTEST. The aim of CONTEST is to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism. Pursue – focuses on detecting, investigating and disrupting terrorist threats to the UK and our interests overseas. Protect – aims to reduce the vulnerability of the UK and UK interests overseas to terrorist attack. This includes aviation security for both cargo and passengers. Prepare – aims to minimise the impact of any attack, manage any incidence of an ongoing attack and recover quickly and effectively Prevent – aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism The Prevent AgendaTRANSCRIPT
PreventFighting extremism
Alison Woodcock Pastoral Director – Carmel College
16th September 2015
ISIS – worst threat to date due to large nos involved
Intense social media propaganda Targeting a younger audience (key age
group) Applying the duty proportionally to the risk
Context
Prevent is one of four work strands which make up the government‘s counter-terrorism strategy – CONTEST. The aim of CONTEST is to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism.
Pursue – focuses on detecting, investigating and disrupting terrorist threats to the UK and our interests overseas.
Protect – aims to reduce the vulnerability of the UK and UK interests overseas to terrorist attack. This includes aviation security for both cargo and passengers.
Prepare – aims to minimise the impact of any attack, manage any incidence of an ongoing attack and recover quickly and effectively
Prevent – aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism
The Prevent Agenda
All provider staff have a legal responsibility under the Prevent Duty to make sure that: they have undertaken training in the Prevent Duty
as identified by their leaders and managers including the principal
they are aware of when it is appropriate to refer concerns about students, learners or colleagues to the Prevent officer, usually the provider’s safeguarding officer
they exemplify British values of "democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs" into their practice.
What are our responsibilities?
As part of the safeguarding and Prevent duty and Equality Act 2010, all staff and volunteers have a duty to demonstrate and help develop values which underpin an awareness of social & moral responsibility in modern Britain.
Institutions are expected to encourage students to respect other people with particular regard to the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010.
British Values - our duty
Don’t need an individual tutorial just evidence in lesson encourage students to vote is democracy
Promoting British Values
All staff and volunteers must report any concerns to the named staff responsible
This may include (not exhaustive): Expressions of view which are discriminately
against protected groups or individuals Third party reports of complains about
behaviour eg planning to travel abroad) Possessing, accessing extremist material
Staff concerns
Must be conducted to look at: Campus Safety & welfare of
staff and students Events External relationships
Risk assessment
Who should be involved: Convene a group across the organisation Partnerships eg police , local authority Build in the external risk picture Gap analysis
Audit existing policies and procedures specifically Pastoral care and welfare referral ICt – filters Estates Freedom of speech
Risk assessment
Channel is a voluntary programme to identify those at risk of being drawn into terrorism
Key factors: Background factors Influences and
connections (draw in faster on line)
Groups to meet a young persons’ needs
Channel
Counter terrorism local profiles is a product that identified the threat and vulnerability for terrorism at a local level
LA chief executive it and asks who should be on readership
Is there a prevent steering group in your local area?
CTLPs
All FE and training staff, board members and volunteers need to be trained in the Prevent duty.
How:
Nigel Lund – regional coordinator HE/FE visits http://
www.preventforfeandtraining.org.uk/prevent-online-training-modules - all staff
http://www.preventforfeandtraining.org.uk/p-pastoral-and-tutorial-notes
WRAP – workshop to raise awareness of prevent – free hour long training dvd
Merseyside police - visits
Training
Educational support Programmes for teachers Residential training for young people and
teachers
Work with former extremists and survivors
Foundation for Peace (Warrington)
The Prevent duty itself will be introduced this autumn, subject to completing its progress through Parliament but Ofsted is already inspecting for compliance and will continue to do so
Prevent should be part of Safeguarding Need to be working towards it
Ofsted
1. Leadership & Governance – Prevent will be reported on to L&G principal needs to sign Prevent policy. Needs to know what to do in event of Prevent issue
2. Training – staff need training3. External partners – do you know who your local prevent
partners are eg policy, LA coordinator, FE coordinator and who to contact
4. Policies – need a self assessment, risk assessment and how to manage Prevent – can be put in Safeguarding policy
5. Curriculum – British values formal and informal, should be happening during the course of the day
6. Referral pathways – make yourself familiar with Channel
Ofsted 6 strands
Merseyside Police - 0151 777 8311 or email [email protected]
Nigel Lund – Regional FE/HE Coordinator
What to do….