Prevent Duty and British Values (e-Learning)

This introductory course will support staff to understand their role in preventing children and adults from being drawn into radicalisation.

As Early Years Providers we have a legal duty to Prevent people (children & adults) who we have contact with from becoming radicalised by being alert to anything concerning in a child’s life at a setting, home or elsewhere.

The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 contains a duty on specified authorities to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

The prevent duty guidance states that children in the early years age range and in early years settings are considered to be "the most vulnerable and impressionable members of society".

The aims and objectives of this course are:

• To Introduce and understand the prevent duty guidance
• Understand your roles and responsibilities to the prevent duty guidance
• Discuss British values and how to identify and implement them in your setting
• This course is aimed at anyone who work within the Early Years sector and aims to ensure practitioners are better prepared to safeguard vulnerable people they work with and their families from being radicalised

• During this training you will learn about:
• What the Prevent Duty is
• How to introduce the Prevent Duty guidance
• What British Values are
• Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance
• How British Values should be implemented in your setting
• The terms ‘extremism’, ‘radicalisation’ and ‘terrorism’
• The government’s counter-terrorism strategy - CONTEST
• Your role in preventing children and adults from being drawn into radicalisation