Prevent

Preliminary Assessment Contest Prevent Pursue Protect Prepare Channel Referral Preliminary Assessment Multi agency panel Support

What is the Prevent Strategy? The Prevent strategy identifies that young people are more likely to be vulnerable to violent extremist or terrorist narratives. Schools and colleges have a duty of care to their pupils and staff which includes safeguarding them from the risk of being drawn into terrorism. Being drawn into terrorism includes not just violent extremism but also non-violent extremism, which can create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism and can popularise views which terrorists exploit. What is the Prevent Strategy?

‘Vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs’.  Please note that being drawn into terrorism includes not only violent extremism but also non-violent extremism. Extremism can take several forms, including islamist extremism, far-right and animal rights extremism for example. What is extremism?

What are British Values? Democracy, the rule of law, equality of opportunity, freedom of speech and the rights for all men and women to live free from persecution of any kind’. Schools are expected to encourage pupils to respect other people with particular regard to the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation). What are British Values?

What is radicalisation? “Radicalisation” refers to the process by which a person comes to support terrorism and forms of extremism leading to terrorism. During the process of ‘radicalisation’ it is possible to intervene to prevent vulnerable people being drawn into terrorist-related activity. What is radicalisation?

The expectation of schools Schools subject to the Prevent Duty will be expected to demonstrate activity in the following areas – Assessing the risk of children being drawn into terrorism Demonstrate that they are protecting children and young people from being drawn into terrorism by having robust safeguarding policies. Ensure that their safeguarding arrangements take into account the policies and procedures of the Local Safeguarding Children Board. make sure that staff have training that gives them the knowledge and confidence to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism, and to challenge extremist ideas which can be used to legitimise terrorism Expected to ensure children are safe from terrorist and extremist material when accessing the internet in school. The expectation of schools

Preliminary Assessment Contest Prevent Pursue Protect Prepare Channel Referral Preliminary Assessment Multi agency panel Support

Channel Channel is a key element of the Prevent strategy Channel Channel is a key element of the Prevent strategy. It is a multi- agency approach to protect people at risk from radicalisation. Channel uses existing collaboration between local authorities, statutory partners (such as the education and health sectors, social services, children’s and youth services and offender management services), the police and the local community to: • Identify individuals at risk of being drawn into terrorism • Assess the nature and extent of that risk • Develop the most appropriate support plan for the individuals concerned. Channel is about safeguarding children and adults from being drawn into committing terrorist-related activity. Channel

Identification Engaged Intent Capable Is the person engaged with an ideology? Intent Is the person intent on doing harm? Capable Does the person have the capability to commit the offence? Identification

Possible Engagement factors Being at a transitional phase in life Being socially isolated Feelings of grievance or injustice Feeling under threat A need for identity, meaning and belonging A desire for status A desire for excitement and adventure A need to dominate and control others A desire for political or moral change Opportunistic involvement (online or in person) Family or friends involved in extremism Mental illness or learning disability Possible Engagement factors

Vulnerability factors Peer pressure Influence from others Unsupervised internet access Bullying Crime and antisocial behaviour Family tensions Victim of race or hate crime Perpetrator of race or hate crime Lack of self esteem or identity Personal or political grievances Vulnerability factors

Case studies In groups of approx 6 – Look at the case studies provided In each case: Would you make a referral? What characteristics is the person displaying – Engagement, Intent, Capability? What factors can you identify that may make this individual vulnerable to extremism? Case studies

What to do if you have a concern This should be dealt with by the same procedures as safeguarding. The safeguarding/ prevent lead will then decide how to take the case forward. The options are to monitor or to take the case to the local Prevent Team. The prevent team will make a determination whether the individual will be supported by Channel or the Prevent Case Management process Channel is a pre-criminal process that is designed to support vulnerable people at the earliest possible opportunity, before they become involved in illegal activity. What to do if you have a concern

Referrals to Channel come from a wide range of partners including education, health, youth offending teams, and social services. When referrals are received, they are screened for suitability by the police and Council Prevent teams. If a referral is considered to be suitable, it will be discussed at the Channel Panel meeting. If the panel feels that an individual who has been referred would benefit from support; a bespoke package of support will be tailored for that individual, based on their particular needs and circumstances. When an individual is referred to Channel, the referrer (or an appropriate person from the referring institution) will be invited to attend the Channel Panel meeting. Similarly, other professionals who are working with an individual will also be invited to attend. This partnership approach ensures that the people who work most closely with vulnerable individuals, and who best understand their specific needs and risks have a key role to play in developing support packages for them Referrals to Channel