1. Medical School 2018 Claire Oldfield
Prevent Training
Medical School 2018
Claire Oldfield

2. What is the Prevent Agenda ?
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. 

3. What is the Prevent Agenda?
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

4. What is the Prevent Agenda?
As the preventative strand of CONTEST, Prevent will:-
Respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat faced by the UK from those who promote it
Prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure they are given appropriate advice and support
Work with a wide range of sectors (including education, criminal justice, faith, charities, the internet and health) where there are risks of radicalisation which need to  be addressed

5. Prevent Duty – What Does It Mean for HE?
Under the Counter Terrorism and Security Act (‘the Act’) relevant higher education bodies (RHEBs) must have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. This is known as the Prevent duty.
The aim of the Prevent strategy is to reduce the threat to the UK from all forms of terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

6. Prevent Duty – What Does It Mean for HE?
HEFCE monitors implementation of the duty in the higher education sector in England. This is at the Government's request.
The University has to provide an annual return to ensure that it is compliant and to report all serious incidents as and when they occur
The University has achieved compliance

7. The Problem – Violent Extremism
The ongoing terrorist threat is currently severe
Growth in extreme, intolerant ideologies
Groups actively recruiting young people
The growth of social media to recruit and radicalise

8. Prevent Duty – HE Obligations
Assess the risks associated with Prevent in the context of their local situation and draw up a proportionate action plan to mitigate those risks
Have responsive, effective welfare support systems, ensuring concerns about students' wellbeing can be acted on, linking to Prevent structures (such as local authorities or the police) if necessary 
Ensure internal mechanisms and external arrangements are in place for sharing information about vulnerable individuals when appropriate
Have systems in place for assessing and mitigating risks around external speakers and events on campus, while maintaining the existing duty to promote freedom of speech

9. Prevent Duty – Our Obligations
Ensure senior managers are engaged with the Prevent duty, build links with external Prevent partners, and arrange ongoing Prevent training for relevant staff
Implement an IT usage policy which covers the Prevent duty
Ensure that students' unions and societies are aware of, and are consulted on, policies concerning activities on campus.

10. Prevent Duty – Safeguarding, pre-criminal space

11. Prevent Duty – Safeguarding, pre-criminal space
Aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism
Resets the narrative around exploiting people’s sense of anger or injustice by offering a counter narrative
Understanding how groups work to exploit and hook the vulnerable

12. Prevent Duty – Safeguarding, pre-criminal space
Provides people with a safe space to explore their sense of injustice, feeling isolated or like an outsider
Safeguard people from being exploited and radicalised into violent extremism

13. Prevent Duty – What are the signs?
Emotional
Angry, mood swings
New found arrogance
Withdrawn
Depressed
Stepping away from their social group

14. Prevent Duty – What are the signs?
Verbal
Fixated on a subject
Closed to new idea/conversations
Change in language/use of words
Asking inappropriate questions
“Scripted” speech
A call to violence or the persecution of a particular group

15. Prevent Duty – What are the signs?
Physical/Circumstantial
Tattoos
Change of routine
New Circle of friends
Absent
Change in clothes
Change in hair/facial hair

16. Prevent Duty – What are the signs?
There are all sorts of reasons for driving the changes set out, but either way they are issues that need to be addressed
Small chance that they are linked to terrorism, but we have to be aware

17. Prevent Duty – What Should We Do?
NOTICE, CHECK, SHARE
Any concerns to be shared with Claire Oldfield, the single point of contact for Prevent.
Not asking you to make the judgment, but to share so that concerns are appropriately addressed
Happy to have a confidential discussion to talk through a concern
Single Point of contact has access to experts and support to allow us to make proportionate decisions

18. Prevent Duty – What Should We Do?
This is the pre- criminal space, students will be supported not criminalised
By sharing concerns it means that they can be fed through so someone who can see the whole picture and make a decision to make a referral

19. Prevent Duty – Referral Process
Any concerns are sent to a Channel Panel chaired by the local authority and made up of police, education, social work and health etc.
Make a decision based on the evidence before it about whether a referral is suitable
Nothing is done without the individual being fully aware, it has to be a transparent process

20. Prevent Duty – Referral Process
If a decision is reached that an individual requires an intervention then the Channel Panel is able to access expert third party support to deal with the particular religious or political ideology
These experts are often referred to as intervention providers – someone who has the expertise to challenge some of the thinking that the individual has been exposed to

21. Prevent Duty – Contact Details
Claire Oldfield
4th Floor Nancy Astor Building
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Mel Joyner -
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