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Safeguarding Against Radicalisation - The Prevent Duty

Introduction

Prevent is the Government’s strategy to stop people becoming involved in violent extremism or supporting terrorism. Channel is an early intervention multi-agency process designed to safeguard vulnerable people from being drawn into violent extremist or terrorist behaviour.

In this course you will learn about the Prevent strategy and the Channel process and what you should do if you believe that someone you know is vulnerable to being exploited or radicalised.

Courses

Duration: 01 hours 30 minutes

This course contains the following modules:

Module name Type Duration
The Problem Online 00:23:00
Our response Online 00:30:00
Your role Online 00:20:00

Audience

This course is intended for anyone working in education, local authorities, health, youth justice, probation, the private sector and any organisation working with children and young people.

Objectives

In this course you will learn about:

  • The range of threats we face
  • What extremism is and how it’s linked to terrorism
  • The processes of radicalisation
  • The role of social media
  • What religion has to do with it
  • The key legislation and recent updates
  • The government’s counter-terrorism strategy - CONTEST
  • The Prevent strategy and the Prevent duty; what it means to different sectors and who it applies to
    Channel – what it is and how it helps those at risk
  • How radicalisation occurs
  • What the signs of radicalisation are
  • What makes people vulnerable
  • How to report concerns
  • How to help prevent violent extremism

Content

The UK threat level; What does terrorism look like?; The range of terror threats we face; What is extremism?; The difference between extremism and terrorism; Keep a perspective; What is radicalisation?; The radicalisation process; Why does it happen?; The role of social media; New government powers; Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015; The UK’s counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST); The Prevent strategy; Who has a duty to prevent?; Overarching Prevent duties; Sector-specific Prevent duties; Covert activity; Freedom of speech; The Channel programme; How does Channel work?; What’s your role? Use your insight; The signs of radicalisation; What makes people vulnerable?; How to raise concerns; Minor worries, serious worries and emergencies; Can you make a difference?; Keep yourself informed

Enrolment details

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