FINAL DRAFT appendix 2

Appendix 2 – Prevent Duty Guidance – specific guidance for local authorities –CYCcurrent position and further actions required

Key extracts from Prevent Duty Guidance – specific guidance for local authorities
Partnership working / CYC current position / Further action required / recommendations
33. Local authorities should establish or make use of an existing local multi-agency group toagree risk and co-ordinate Prevent activity. Many local authorities use Community SafetyPartnerships but other multi-agency forums may be appropriate. /
  • York and North Yorkshire multi-agency Prevent Strategic Board (chair Paul Shevlin, deputy chair Paul Kennedy).
  • CYC representedbySally Burns, Director CANS, Maxine Squire, Principal Adviser
  • Chair of Safer York Partnership(Steve Waddington) also invited to meetings.
  • Prevent Strategic Board responsible for agreeing the counter-terrorism local profile (CTLP) and associated multi-agency action plan.
  • Sixdistrict-based multi-agency Local Prevent Groups (linked to local MAPS groups) with representation from appropriate NYCC locality teams and Policy & Partnerships.
  • Chair of York Local Prevent Group (Jane Mowat)
  • These partnership structures established in 2014, replacing a gold / silver / bronze structure established in 2011.
  • North Yorkshire County Council Prevent Practitionersgroup established in 2014 to coordinate internal Prevent work. Includes officers from Education and Skills, Children’s Social Care, Youth Justice, 0-19 Prevention Service, Adults Social Care, Adults Safeguarding, Children’s Safeguarding, Policy & Partnerships. Chair of York Local Prevent Group sits on this to maintain sub-regional links
/ Safer York Partnership (SYP) Board membership has been expanded to include representation from both adult and children safeguarding boards. The Board fulfils the function of a ‘Silver’ Group under the previous structure, specifically for York. The Chair of SYP also attends the North Yorkshire Community Safety Partnership, again ensuring clear links between county and city
34. It is likely that links will need to be made to other statutory partnerships such as LocalSafeguarding Children Boards Safeguarding Adults Boards, Channel panels and Youth Offending Teams /
  • Links as outlined above.
  • Presentations have been made to Adults and Children’s Safeguarding Boards in 2015.
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  • These links are being established through expanded membership of the Safer York Partnership Board. To be completed by December 2015.

35. It will be important that local or regional Prevent coordinators have access to senior local authority leadership to give advice and support. /
  • Local Prevent Coordinators are Home Office funded posts; none for Yorkbecause it is not a priority area.
  • Regional coordinators are members of or have access to Prevent Strategic Board.

36. We expect local multi-agency arrangements to be put in place to effectively monitor theimpact of Prevent work. /
  • Prevent Strategic Boardmonitors the overall effectiveness and impact of prevent work outlined in the CTLP and associated action plan.
  • Local Prevent Groups have local action plans and report on local activities to the Prevent Strategic Board.
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  • An action plan based on the recommendations in the recently published CTLP is currently being drafted for approval by the Local Prevent Group on 30th November. It will also go to the SYP board in December and will provide the basis for performance monitoring for the city

37. Prevent work conducted through local authorities will often directly involve, as well ashave an impact on local communities. Effective dialogue and coordination with community-based organisations will continue to be essential. /
  • Community Engagement is within the remit of the Neighbourhood Management Team and also fits with the work of the Building Stronger Communities Board (The Community Safety Unit is represented on that board) The newly formed Neighbourhood Enforcement Team has clear links with the Police Safer Neighbourhood teams and will also fulfil a community engagement function through their joint patrols. This will enable information to be fed directly to the Local Prevent Group
  • Chair of the Local Prevent Group is well engaged with the universities and with Higher York in relation to Prevent
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  • There is scope for further work to identify specific community groups with whom we may wish to increase our engagement
  • As part of delivery of the local action plan, scoping work needs to be undertaken to identify where groups of interest may be located
  • Work is to be undertaken to look at local social media pages where potential discussion around issues relating to the Prevent agenda may take place. To be completed March 2016

Risk Assessment / NYCC current position / Further action required / recommendations
38. We expect local authorities to use the existing counter-terrorism local profiles (CTLPs), produced for every region by the police, to assess the risk of individuals being drawn into terrorism. This includes not just violent extremism but also non-violent extremism, which can create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism and can popularise views which terrorists exploit. CTLPs should follow national guidance[1]. /
  • CTLP is the assessment of risk within York and North Yorkshire.
  • Contributions from CYC have been incorporated into CTLP annually since 2011, now via the Local Delivery Group
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  • CTLP to be used by City of York Council as the assessment of risk within North Yorkshire

39. This risk assessment should also be informed by engagement with Prevent co-ordinators, schools, registered childcare providers, universities, colleges, local prisons, probation services, health, immigration enforcement, Youth Offending Teams and others, as well as by a local authority’s own knowledge of its area. /
  • Prevent Strategic Board and Local Prevent Groups currently seek to engage with the organisations and individuals outlined in the guidance.
  • The Local Delivery group is well engaged with the universities and colleges and with Higher York and the chair has worked with University of York to develop their Prevent Policy
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  • Dialogue needs to continue with the universities and the local action plan will include the development of better and more frequent communication on Prevent with education establishments and with the YOT. To be completed by March 2016

40. We would expect local authorities to incorporate the duty into existing policies and procedures, so it becomes part of the day-to-day work of the authority. The duty is likely to be relevant to fulfilling safeguarding responsibilities in that local authorities should ensure that there are clear and robust safeguarding policies to identify children at risk. This guidance should be read in conjunction with other relevant safeguarding guidance, in particular Working Together to Safeguard Children[2]. /
  • Work is under way through the Local Delivery Group to identify services within the authority where Prevent needs to be more robustly embedded into core business
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  • Work will be undertaken through the delivery of the Local Action Plan to ensure that safeguarding policies include reference to the Prevent procedures within the city. To be completed by March 2016

Action plan / CYCcurrent position / Further action required / recommendations
41. With the support of co-ordinators and others as necessary, any local authority that assesses, through the multi-agency group, that there is a risk should develop a Prevent action plan. This will enable the local authority to comply with the duty and address whatever risks have been identified. /
  • A partnership Prevent action plan is incorporated within the CTLP.
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  • Local action plan will be monitored through SYP
  • Annual report on CTLP, and the Local Action Planto be presented to CMT To be completed by March 2016.

42. These local action plans will identify, prioritise and facilitate delivery of projects, activities or specific interventions to reduce the risk of people being drawn into terrorism in each local authority. Many of these projects and activities will be community based. /
  • To date no Prevent specific local activities or projects have taken place. It is envisaged that this will change as with the Duty and through closer working between Neighbourhood Management and Community Safety
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  • The Local Prevent Group will identify where specific projects can be developed in relation to Prevent, working with existing networks and resources in order to deliver them.

Staff training / CYC current position / Further action required / recommendations
43. Local authorities will be expected to ensure appropriate frontline staff, including those of its contractors, have a good understanding of Prevent are trained to recognise vulnerability to being drawn into terrorism and are aware of available programmes to deal with this issue. /
  • Two CYC staff trained as WRAP (Home Office Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent) trainers.
  • WRAP delivered on an ad hoc basis over past 5 yearsacross CYC.
  • Discussions have taken place with some DMTs in relation to the need for more training
  • Five multi agency ‘Making the Link’ seminars held in 2014.
  • Train the trainer sessions to maximise number of WRAP trainers across the partners involved in the Prevent Strategic Board (30 staff from different partners trained February 2015).
  • Online training has been issued to the university of York for use with their staff
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  • As a minimum all CYC staff) who are required to undertake safeguarding training should also be required to undertake appropriate training (for example mandatory elearning package) on a regular basis to ensure that they have a good understanding of Prevent, can recognise vulnerability to being drawn into terrorism and are aware of available programmes to deal with this issue. To be completed by March 2016.
  • Discussion is taking place with WDU to utilise a £10k Home Office Grant for delivery of the Duty to develop a training package to be rolled out across CYC. March 2016.

44. Local authority staff will be expected to make appropriate referrals to Channel (a programme which provides support to individuals who are at risk of being drawn into terrorism which is put on a statutory footing by Chapter 2 of Part 5 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015) and ensure that Channel is supported by the appropriate organisation and expertise. National guidance on Channel[3]. /
  • Work is being undertakento align and integrateChannel within the existing safeguarding process rather than a standalone process in relation to Children and Young People. Adult referrals will be dealt with through the Multi Agency Problem Solving Meetings managed by the Community Safety Unit
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  • Discussions are taking place with safeguarding teams and through the Local Delivery Group to ensure that Channel processes in the city are clear. This includes the development of a clear flow diagram and guidance. To be completed March 2016

Training / briefing of elected members[4] /
  • None to date
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  • Proposal to be developed regarding training / briefing of elected members. To be completed by December 2015.

Use of local authority resources[5] / CYC current position / Further action required / recommendations
45. In complying with the duty we expect local authorities to ensure that publicly-owned venues and resources do not provide a platform for extremists and are not used to disseminate extremist views. This includes considering whether IT equipment available to the general public should use filtering solutions that limit access to terrorist and extremist material. /
  • This is not known at the present time
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  • The Local Action Plan will include the need for an audit of CYC premises and the development of clear guidance in relation to the potential for public buildings to be used to disseminate extremist views. This will include libraries and community centres. To be completed March 2016

46. We expect local authorities to ensure that organisations who work with the local authority on Prevent are not engaged in any extremist activity or espouse extremist views. /
  • NYCC Prevent Practitioners group to develop good practice guidance which will also include York specific examples. To be completed by December 2015.

47. Where appropriate, we also expect local authorities to take the opportunity when new contracts for the delivery of their services are being made to ensure that the principles of the duty are written in to those contracts in a suitable form. /
  • Existing contract terms and conditions already enable termination for any breach of the mandatory and discretionary exclusions in the Public Contracts Regulations which include issues linked to terrorism). In addition, contractors are obliged to comply with the Human Rights Act and Equalities legislation.

Collaboration between areas / CYC current position / Further action required / recommendations
48. In two-tier areas, county and district councils will need to agree proportionate arrangements for sharing the assessment of risk and for agreeing local Prevent action plans. It is expected that neighbouring areas will also agree proportionate arrangements for sharing the assessment of risk and for agreeing local Prevent action plans as appropriate. /
  • The Prevent Strategic Board, Local Prevent Groups and CTLP are the agreed arrangements for sharing the assessment of risk and for agreeing local Prevent action plans.
  • Ad hoc arrangements for sharing with neighbouring areas.
  • Chairs of CSPs for York and North Yorkshire sit on each other’s partnership boards to ensure dialogue across the two areas
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  • Prevent is to be a standing agenda item on the Community Safety Managers meetings for York and North Yorkshire to allow the sharing of local action plans.To be completed by December 2015

Prevent priority areas / NYCC current position / Further action required / recommendations
49. The Home Office will continue to identify priority areas for Prevent-related activity. Priority areas will, as now, be funded to employ a local Prevent co-ordinator to give additional support and expertise and additional Home Office grant funding is available for Prevent projects and activities. The Home Office will continue to have oversight of local Prevent co-ordinators and the funding, evaluation and monitoring of these projects /
  • North Yorkshire is not a priority area. However if there is a channel referral we can access some interventions (i.e. Rewind) via Police Channel Officer if appropriate.

Other agencies and organisations supporting children / CYC current position / Further action required / recommendations
50. A range of private and voluntary agencies and organisations provide services or, in some cases, exercise functions in relation to children. The duty applies to those bodies, which include, for example, children’s homes and independent fostering agencies and bodies exercising local authority functions whether under voluntary delegation arrangements or via the use of statutory intervention powers. These bodies should ensure they are part of their local authorities’ safeguarding arrangements and that staff are aware of and know how to contribute to Prevent related activity in their area where appropriate. /
  • This is work that should evolve from the development of relationships with the Childrens Safeguarding Board both at Local Delivery level and also through SYP. To be completed March 2015

Out-of-school settings supporting children / CYC current position / Further action required / recommendations
51. Many children attend a range of out-of-school settings other than childcare including supplementary schools, and tuition centres to support home education. These settings are not regulated under education law. Local authorities should take steps to understand the range of activity and settings in their areas and take appropriate and proportionate steps to ensure that children attending such settings are properly safeguarded (which should include considering whether children attending such settings are at risk of being drawn into extremism or terrorism). In assessing the risks associated with such settings, local authorities should have regard to whether the settings subscribe to voluntary accreditation schemes and any other evidence about the extent to which the providers are taking steps to safeguard the children in their care. Where safeguarding concerns arise, local authorities should actively consider how to make use of the full range of powers available to them to reduce the risks to children, including relevant planning and health and safety powers. /
  • A scoping exercise to better understand the range of activity and settings in York and consider what appropriate and proportionate steps are required to ensure that children attending such settings are properly safeguarded. To be completed by January 2015
  • Practice guidance and access to training to be offered by Children’s Safeguarding Board. To be completed by March 2016.

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[4] There is nothing specific about training / briefing of elected members in the Prevent Duty Guidance, but paragraph 32 emphasises the role of elected members alongside senior officers.

[5] This area is also covered in the Revised Best Value Statutory Guidance ( “Authorities should not commission services from, give grants to or sell assets to an individual or organisation which actively or vocally opposes fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs; or which calls for the death of members of our armed forces. Authorities should ensure that effective processes are in place to provide assurance on this before entering into any agreement.”