Prevent Duty Training

In today’s landscape, Prevent Duty is an essential training topic and is something that should be regularly reviewed at schools and other institutes of education. For those teaching children of a younger age, educating children on British values and their rights can help children to challenge and argue extremist views, assisting their personal, social and emotional development and understanding of the world.

Prevent Duty should not stop children from debating extremist views. It is just part of the wider safeguarding duties of those working within education and childcare to ensure that children are not subject to acts of extremism or radicalisation.

By protecting children from these threats, children could be protected from further harm associated with terrorism. for example, drugs, gangs, neglect and abuse. Ofstead common inspections framework makes reference to the need of safeguarding arrangements to prevent radicalisation and extremism. Different settings may result in different requirements.

Statutory guidance on Prevent duty can be put into 4 sections:

• Risk assessments
• Working in partnership
• Staff training
• IT policies

This Prevent Training takes just 20 minutes to complete and you can trial it for free at any time. We also offer a broad selection of online safeguarding training courses.