Prevent Duty Training

Prevent, a strand of the Government's counter-terrorism strategy, intersects with the safeguarding of young people and children. This course is designed to raise your understanding and help you relate Prevent to your own interaction with children. It is suitable for anyone who may have contact with children, young people and their families as part of their daily activities.

On completion of this course, the learner will:

• Have an awareness of the Prevent strand of the Government's counter-terrorism strategy and how it relates to safeguarding, as well as how it tackles the ideological causes of terrorism
• Understand the range of legislation and guidance surrounding safeguarding and the protection of children and young people
• Know that staff should be trained to an adequate level, aligned with responsibility levels and the risk of extremism in the area
• Have an awareness of how a person might be vulnerable to terrorism, or to supporting violent extremism
• Be able to demonstrate an awareness of the range of indicators that might suggest a vulnerability to extremism
• Understand their responsibility to report concerns, including using the National Referral Form or your local Prevent service
• Understand the safeguarding options available for children and young people vulnerable to extremism, including risk assessments and the role of CHANNEL
• Be able to demonstrate an awareness of the actions to take in the event of suspected radicalisation
• Have access to the latest Prevent resources

This module uses four scenarios to help you assess your current level of knowledge and begin thinking about the issues surrounding radicalisation.

At its heart, Prevent is another form of safeguarding, existing to stop people supporting terrorism and understand the ideological causes of terrorism. This module gives you an overview of the aims of Prevent and how groups seek to recruit people through radicalisation.

Covers the Education Act 2002 and the multi-agency approach to safeguarding against extremism, the legal guidance and framework, the requirements for safeguarding in an education environment, and access to resources for conducting a risk assessment and submitting a Prevent referral.

Vulnerability to radicalisation can result from many different motivators and manifest in many ways. This module helps you recognise indicators of potential vulnerability to radicalisation in a young person.

Covers the factors and indicators that could point to a child at risk of terrorist activity or radicalisation, how to share concerns through the National Referral Form, and the role of a local Prevent service in high-risk areas.

Radicalisation is a process, and Prevent can be a way of intervening when a young person is on the path towards extremism. This module looks at the methods used by Prevent and, where appropriate, CHANNEL, to refocus a young person to a less radical viewpoint.

Using a range of scenarios, you will apply everything you have learned to an assessment of your knowledge. The pass mark is 80%, and you can retake the assessment as many times as you need before downloading your certificate.