Session Overview

Learning Objectives

List the objectives of the Prevent strategy
Identify how healthcare staff can contribute to the Prevent agenda
List your own responsibilities in relation to Prevent
Identify factors that can make individuals more likely to be radicalised or be a risk to others
State what action to take, including Channel panels, if there are concerns an individual is being groomed into a terrorist-related activity
Identify potential signs that an individual might be vulnerable to radicalisation or at risk of involvement in acts of terrorism
List how individuals may be influenced directly or indirectly
Explain the importance of sharing information and the consequences of failing to do so

Important - Please Read

The following Preventing Radicalisation (Basic Awareness) session has been developed by a team of Prevent subject matter experts from NHS England & NHS Improvement and peer-reviewed by the Office for Security & Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office and the Dept of Health & Social Care.

The content in the session and the eAssessment represents a fair and balanced reflection of the current risk and threat levels posed by radicalisation in the UK i.e. as independently assessed by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC).

The threat to the UK from international terrorism is currently Severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.

According to JTAC, the current greatest source of risk is from Islamist inspired terrorism principally from Daesh (ISIL, ISIS & IS) and Al-Qaeda, and groups and individuals who are directed, encouraged or influenced by them. However, there is an increasing and growing threat posed by right-wing terrorism or those having an unclear or no fixed ideology and we have been careful to include this threat within the body of the training.

The session uses a number of scenarios and case studies to demonstrate particular issues around Prevent. The scenarios described, names, characters and incidents portrayed are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings and products is intended or should be inferred

Facts and figures

In the year ending 31 March 2021, there were 4,915 referrals to Prevent.

Health accounted 547 referrals in total or 11% of the national total.

Within the Health Sector, Mixed, Unclear and Unstable Ideology was the most common ideology, with 331 referrals or 60%. This category reflects instances where the ideology presented involves a combination of elements from multiple ideologies (mixed), shifts between different ideologies (unstable), or where the individual does not present a coherent ideology yet may still pose a terrorism risk (unclear where the individual does not present a coherent ideology yet may still pose a terrorism risk).

This was followed by Islamist (20%), Extreme Right Wing (18%) and Other 2%.

88% of referrals were male and where age was known (the largest proportion of referrals were of those aged 15 to 20 years.

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