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Statutory and mandatory training · All health and social care staff

Preventing radicalisation: the Prevent duty

A safeguarding duty, not a surveillance one, and the difference matters more than any other point in this course.

  • 2modules
  • 2.0CPD hours
  • 75guided minutes
  • Freealways

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About this course

Section 26 of the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a duty on specified authorities, including NHS trusts and many care providers, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

This course teaches the duty accurately, and it is equally clear about what the duty is not. Prevent is a safeguarding process concerned with vulnerability to exploitation. It is not about religion, ethnicity or political opinion, and referrals based on those things are both wrong and counterproductive.

It covers radicalisation as an exploitation process, the vulnerability factors, the Channel panel, how to raise a concern, and the criticisms of Prevent that a well informed professional should know about.

What you will be able to do

  • State the legal basis of the Prevent duty
  • Describe radicalisation as an exploitation process comparable to grooming
  • Identify vulnerability factors without profiling by religion or ethnicity
  • Explain what happens after a referral, including the Channel panel

Modules

  1. 1 The duty, the vulnerability, and the referral 40 min study · 4 min script · 4 question knowledge check
  2. 2 Making a referral, and what Channel actually does 35 min study · 3 min script · 4 question knowledge check

Assessment and certificate

Knowledge check at 80 per cent with unlimited attempts.

A free digital certificate showing 1 CPD hour with a verification code.

Questions

Is Prevent about Muslims?

No, and a course that implies otherwise is teaching people to make bad referrals. Prevent covers all forms of terrorism, and referrals relate to extreme right wing terrorism in very substantial numbers. Referring someone because of their religion or ethnicity is discrimination, it is not what the duty requires, and it wastes the time of people who deal with genuine risk.

Is a Prevent referral a criminal matter?

No. Channel is a voluntary, multi agency safeguarding process. It is not a criminal sanction, participation requires consent, and the majority of people referred are found to need no Prevent intervention at all, though some are signposted to other support.