PREVENT DUTY
As part of our school’s ongoing safeguarding and child protection duties, we are fully behind the government’s Prevent Strategy.
From 1 July 2015 all schools are subject to a duty under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, in the exercise of their functions, to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. This duty is known as the Prevent Duty for Schools.
At St Joseph's Infant School, we build pupils’ resilience to radicalisation by promoting fundamental British values as well as Gospel 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 pupils 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 information and training on the PREVENT strategy.
Please Click this link to be taken to the
Revised Prevent Duty Guidance:
for England and Wales
A full copy of our Child Protection Policy can be viewed on the policies tab.
