1. Prevent & Your Role Within it
ANDREW MASON - (Gwent Police)
SHEREEN WILLIAMS - (Newport & Monmouthshire Councils)
Gwent Prevent Partnership

2. CONTEST
PREVENT is one of the four strands of the Government’s national counterterrorism strategy (CONTEST);
CONTEST
PREVENT– Prevent Violent Extremism
PROTECT– Protect Infrastructure
PREPARE– Emergency Planning
PURSUE- Special Branch/Police
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3. What is PREVENT? Prevent is short for ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’
The overall aim of Prevent is to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremism by raising awareness of the issues and supporting people who may be vulnerable.
PREVENT ‘Health Warning’
Prevent is not about catching terrorists.
That is the role for our security services
It is not about ‘spying on communities’.
There is no checklist/profile of what a terrorist looks like.
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4. The objective of PREVENT
To respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat we face from those who promote it;
To prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure that they are given appropriate advice and support; and
To work with sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation that we need to address.
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5. Facts about Prevent
PREVENT covers ALL forms of extremism i.e. Islamist, Far-Right, Militant Animal rights etc
It is about protecting and safeguarding those who are vulnerable
It operates in the pre – criminal space
Work around PREVENT is on a multi-agency level
It is intervening to stop people moving from extremist groups or from extremism into terrorist-related activity.
Prevent is about working with communities to help them support vulnerable people and build resilience to groups or individuals who seek to create divisions and cause harm
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6. The Public Sector Duty
Section 26(1) of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 imposes a duty on “specified authorities”, when exercising their functions, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism
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7. What does this mean for Public Sector Employees?
1) Staff understand the PREVENT agenda and participate in the relevant training 2) Staff have the knowledge of PREVENT related safeguarding concerns and know how to make a referral 3) Staff knows who the PREVENT SPOC is 4) Those providing services to public sector organisations e.g. foster carer, accommodation provider, substance misuse agencies etc are provided with PREVENT training and understand the importance of sharing concerns 5) Checks are carried out to ensure that external service providers do not hold extremist views and/or involved in extremism/terrorism 6) Participate on the CHANNEL Panel (intervention panel)
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8. ISLAMIST
Nasser and Aseel Muthana
Reyaad Khan
Siful Haque Sujan
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9. Extreme Far RIGHT
Swansea
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10. Your Role in PREVENT
Work together to identify situations or people who could be vulnerable and at risk of becoming radicalised
also
those who exploit them
Do not ignore information /warning signs such as behaviour changes that may present to you in relation to extremist views of individuals
Most importantly, SHARE your concerns.
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11. PREVENT Duty
If you have a concern, speak to your line manager or your organisations SPOC
Advice on how to manage the concerns will be provided
If the situation requires a PREVENT referral and, if appropriate, a CHANNEL Panel will be convened to consider intervention/support options for the individual
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12. Channel Panel Multi-agency Protects people at risk from radicalisation
Using existing collaboration between local authorities, statutory partners, the police and the local community to:-
a) identify individuals at risk of being drawn into terrorism
b) assess the nature and extent of that risk;
c) develop the most appropriate support plan for the
individuals concerned.
Participation in Channel is voluntary
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