Prevent Duty Training Reviews

I am a governor. The course was aimed at front line staff with direct contact with young people. It gave me nothing in terms of understanding our governance responsibilities for Prevent or good practice in carrying this out.The course lacked depth e.g. judgements about whether behaviour and context are a risk are very difficult to make in practice and there was no discussion of this, just an acknowledgement that it's the case. Nor was there any discussion about the risks (actual or perceived) of making a referral, or the real concerns some people have about some aspects of the Prevent programme.

Everyone with common sense will know what to do. It was also focused on young children in school setting rather than young adults at university. The questions were really silly. I stopped even reading them, towards the end, I just answered the questions randomly. Half an hour wasted

No summary provided

I personally prefer to get information by reading not viewing a set of videos. This course was annoying as it was inflexible - I couldn’t just read the transcript and press next.

Hinted at Islamic terrorism. Did not make it explicit that right wing terrorism and extremism exists.

I’ve done this course before so it’s familiar territory, but my main issue is that the quiz at the end largely tests knowledge of relevant legislation rather than an understanding of the actual issues.

In the test, one of the questions was: "what are signs of being open/more vulnerable to radicalism?" One option was "being accepted" In the training, video a person was heard as saying "I felt accepted." (By those who were doing the radicalisation). I was marked as this being incorrect. There always seems to be at least one question in these training videos which contradicted by what's in the video.

The training was good but I selected a correct definition answer and it was marked wrong. I took a photo of this to evidence the problem. I checked the definition, against the course slides and I had got it right. Frustrating and stops me wanting to put in the effort with other courses.

The course may be appropriate for those with other safeguarding responsibilities but we have none, and so it felt misdirected for my staff and myself.

No summary provided