PREVENT

 

PREVENT

 

Prevent is one of four strands of the government's counter-terrorism strategy, known as Contest.  The other strands are: Prepare; Protect; and Pursue. Prevent is designed to support people at risk of joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.

 

Since 2010, when the Government published the Prevent Strategy, there has been an awareness of the specific need to safeguard children, young people and families from violent extremism. There have been several occasions both locally and nationally in which extremist groups have attempted to radicalise vulnerable children and young people to hold extreme views including views justifying political, religious, sexist or racist violence, or to steer them into a rigid and narrow ideology that is intolerant of diversity and leaves them vulnerable to future radicalisation. At St Matthew's, we build pupils’ resilience to radicalisation by promoting British values and enabling our pupils to challenge extremist views. 

 

The statutory guidance refers to the importance of Prevent awareness training to equip staff to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and to challenge extremist ideas. The Home Office has developed a core training product for this purpose – Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP). All our staff have received WRAP training sessions on what Prevent is about and how to deal with any issues they may see inside or outside school. 

 

Please click here for a link to the Prevent Duty for Schools.

 

Government advice site for parents.