This training aims to provide you with an understanding of Prevent. The Prevent strategy forms part of the Government’s wider counter-terrorism strategy, known as (CONTEST). Prevent aims to safeguard vulnerable people from being radicalised to supporting terrorism, or becoming terrorists themselves. It also works to tackle the causes of radicalisation and respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism, and enable those who have already engaged in terrorism to disengage and rehabilitate. Prevent is a key part of safeguarding and all health workers have a duty and responsibility to safeguard vulnerable individuals.

Radicalisation is comparable to other forms of exploitation, for example, child sexual exploitation or young people being drawn into gang or knife crime. As such is a safeguarding issue relevant to staff working in the health sector, who are well placed to identify individuals who may be groomed into criminal and terrorist activity. Staff must therefore be able to recognise possible signs of radicalisation and be confident in referring individuals who can then receive support before they have become involved in criminal activity.

This session provides training on Prevent and radicalisation for clinical and non-clinical staff who are required to have accessed WRAP (Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent) as outlined in the NHS England Prevent Training Framework.

We meet an awful lot of people in healthcare. Almost everyone in Britain who has got involved with terrorism will have met healthcare workers at some point. So, we may have opportunities to identify people who are at risk.

Occasionally, healthcare workers have themselves become radicalised or drawn into terrorism. It could affect one of our colleagues.