What you need to: Relevant Safeguarding Policies, which include visiting speaker protocols, should be updated with the relevant changes and we have some suggested text and wording along with good examples which are already in use. There is no requirement to have an additional policy to cover Prevent. It should fit in with your existing Safeguarding Policy and reference should be made to what it is, how you will protect children from messages of violent extremism and what action you will take if you have concerns that a child or young person is vulnerable to radicalisation or violent extremism (including, but not restricted to, those linked to Islamist ideology, or to Far Right / Neo Nazi / White Supremacist ideology, Irish Nationalist and Loyalist paramilitary groups, and extremist Animal Rights movements). PREVENT does not aim to criminalise people for holding views; instead, it seeks to stop individuals from going to the extreme of committing or encouraging violent activity. We have produced a clear Prevent Information Leaflet on czone: Prevent - working in partnership under one strategy Sections of this can be used and incorporated into policies and the leaflet itself can be downloaded and printed if required These policy/statement examples cover all the new duties and capture the new requirements very well. Gidea Park College Parkfield School Bournemouth What is Channel? is the name for the (national) process of identifying and referring a person for early intervention and support the word refers to ‘Channel’ – channelling a person through the process Channel is a multi-agency approach to protecting people at risk from radicalisation. The Channel process uses existing collaboration between local authorities, statutory partners (such as education and health organisations, and youth services social services, children’s and offender management services), the police and the local community to: Identify people at risk of being drawn into terrorism; •
What you need to: Relevant Safeguarding Policies, which include visiting speaker protocols, should be updated with the relevant changes and we have some suggested text and wording along with good examples which are already in use. There is no requirement to have an additional policy to cover Prevent. It should fit in with your existing Safeguarding Policy and reference should be made to what it is, how you will protect children from messages of violent extremism and what action you will take if you have concerns that a child or young person is vulnerable to radicalisation or violent extremism (including, but not restricted to, those linked to Islamist ideology, or to Far Right / Neo Nazi / White Supremacist ideology, Irish Nationalist and Loyalist paramilitary groups, and extremist Animal Rights movements). PREVENT does not aim to criminalise people for holding views; instead, it seeks to stop individuals from going to the extreme of committing or encouraging violent activity. We have produced a clear Prevent Information Leaflet on czone: Prevent - working in partnership under one strategy Sections of this can be used and incorporated into policies and the leaflet itself can be downloaded and printed if required These policy/statement examples cover all the new duties and capture the new requirements very well. Gidea Park College Parkfield School Bournemouth What is Channel? ‘Channel’ is the name for the (national) process of identifying and referring a person for early intervention and support – the word refers to channelling a person through the process Channel is a multi-agency approach to protecting people at risk from radicalisation. The Channel process uses existing collaboration between local authorities, statutory partners (such as education and health organisations, social services, children’s and youth services and offender management services), the police and the local community to: • Identify people at risk of being drawn into terrorism;
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