identify potential adjustments you could make to your plan or appropriate actions your institution could take to avoid undermining and proportionate equality, human rights and good relations when the plan is implemented. You may need to spend time and resources to persuade staff, students and their representatives to engage with this process. Being clear about why you want to engage with them and how you will take on board their comments and suggestions should help you. Example A proposed Prevent action plan requires students who want to organise any on university premises to provide the Events Team/Campus Coordinator with relevant information (such as date, agenda and proposed speakers) well in advance of the event taking place. When external speakers are invited, students are also expected to provide information about them by completing a freedom of speech form. Under the proposed plan the Events Team/ Campus Coordinator is responsible for reviewing the information provided through freedom of speech forms and for assessing whether an event is likely to pose a risk relevant to the Prevent duty. If so, the Events Team/Campus Coordinator is required to liaise with the Prevent lead so he/she can decide on the best course of action. discussing the proposed Prevent action plan with staff and students (including students’ union and society representatives), the Prevent lead amends it to include additional actions which should be taken where potential equality and human rights issues are identified in relation to a planned event. The actions include: The Prevent lead holds an Event Review Meeting with the following stakeholders: Equality and Diversity Manager; Events Team/Campus
identify potential adjustments you could make to your plan or appropriate and proportionate actions your institution could take to avoid undermining equality, human rights and good relations when the plan is implemented. You may need to spend time and resources to persuade staff, students and their representatives to engage with this process. Being clear about why you want to engage with them and how you will take on board their comments and suggestions should help you. Example A proposed Prevent action plan requires students who want to organise any on university premises to provide the Events Team/Campus Coordinator with relevant information (such as date, agenda and proposed speakers) well in advance of the event taking place. When external speakers are invited, students are also expected to provide information about them by completing a freedom of speech form. Under the proposed plan the Events Team/ Campus Coordinator is responsible for reviewing the information provided through freedom of speech forms and for assessing whether an event is likely to pose a risk relevant to the Prevent duty. If so, the Events Team/Campus Coordinator is required to liaise with the Prevent lead so he/she can decide on the best course of action. discussing the proposed Prevent action plan with staff and students (including students’ union and society representatives), the Prevent lead amends it to include additional actions which should be taken where potential equality and human rights issues are identified in relation to a planned event. The actions include: The Prevent lead holds an Event Review Meeting with the following stakeholders: Equality and Diversity Manager; Events Team/Campus
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