Prevent action plan February 2017

Guidance- summary of activity required / Work to date / Action required
1 / Local authorities should establish or make use of an existing local multi-agency group to agree risk and co-ordinate Prevent activity. / A Board is in place comprising
·  B&NES Council
·  CCG
·  National Probation Service
·  Police
·  CTIU
·  Bath Spa University
·  Fire and Rescue
·  Bath College / The Board has adopted the terms of reference explicitly highlighting the guidance with consideration for CTLP/risk assessment.
B&NES Prevent referral process has been completed and circulated.
2 / Links will need to be made to other statutory partnerships such as Local Safeguarding Children Boards Safeguarding Adults Boards, Channel panels and Youth Offending Teams / The following Council services sit on the Prevent Board
·  Equality
·  Connecting Families
·  Community Safety
·  Emergency Planning
·  Safeguarding
·  11-19 Outcomes / Prevent has been incorporated within LSCB, LSAB and YOS and work on prevent awareness sessions to childminders is continuing and this is continuing with connecting families.
3 / It will be important that local or regional Prevent co-ordinators have access to senior local authority leadership to give advice and support / Regular discussions take place with CTIU. / CTIU representatives from Avon and Somerset Police provide the Board advice on national and local risks.
4 / We expect local multi-agency arrangements to be put in place to effectively monitor the impact of Prevent work. / No Channel Panel referrals to date in B&NES Council area. / Prevent Board to review any Prevent referrals and the efficiency of the process should any referrals be made.
5 / Effective dialogue and coordination with community-based organisations will continue to be essential. / Bath Islamic Society is not engaged with the Board. / This has been challenging.
Imam in neighbouring authority has offered to assist.
CTIU (via A&S police beat manager) to arrange a meeting to discuss Prevent with BISL.
6 / We expect local authorities to use the existing counter-terrorism local profiles (CTLPs) to assess the risk of individuals being drawn into terrorism. 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.. / Work with neighbouring authorities to draw up a risk assessment that is fit for purpose and recognises cross –boundary issues. / Throughout 2016 CTIU shared intelligence from their CTLP with the Board and also provide a risk summary.
The CTLP will be used to inform the B&NES risk assessment, due for consultation by start March 2017.
See number 8.
7 / 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. / Work with Safeguarding and other service areas is taking place to identify how Prevent can be incorporated into day-to-day processes and plan development. / A Prevent training sub group has been convened to address the training needs of Prevent Board partner agencies. Update Nov 2016: this has been continuing with good progress – prevent has been incorporated by working with pre-school, schools, nursery’s and childminders in making sure how to identify children and young people from the risk from racialisation.
8 / Any local authority that assesses, through the multi-agency group, that there is a risk should develop a Prevent action plan 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. / Action Planning has hitherto been based on risk identified in the CTLP and has been agreed with CTIU / No particular risks identified in B&NES area.
If risks are identified by CTIU these will need to be prioritised and resourced.
9 / 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 / From March 2016 the Home Office accredited Prevent training module WRAP has been delivered to the following:
312 people have been trained in WRAP – this includes frontline line staff and community organisations.
78 Schools completed WRAP (13 Schools remaining)
58 School Governors completed WRAP
130 members of staff trained from Childminders, Pre-School and Nurseries.
16 people have been trained in November 2016 to become WRAP trained and completed the Train the Trainer course.
January 2017- CTiU protect awareness training was provided to Waste services- additional dates are being organised. / Continued WRAP training would be delivered in 2017. A number of staff members are trained to deliver WRAP.
WRAP sessions are been advertised each month on the B&NES learning development portal to ensure frontline staff and external partners and organisations to sign up.
10 / Local authority staff will be expected to make appropriate referrals to Channel / The referral mechanism is disseminated through newsletters and other information / Continue with dissemination of mechanism.
February/March 2016- the Home Office have made changes to the Prevent and Channel process. These include new statutory timescales for consideration of referrals, and also a statutory requirement for Channel Panels to be held at least once a month.
From April 2016 to present each month Channel Panels meetings are set up. We may end up cancelling them if we do not have any referrals. This information is disseminated through our prevent training.
11 / 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. / ‘Red button’ reporting has been incorporated in Council IT systems. / Check Council venue hire policy to ensure vetting for extremist organisations and individuals are not able to use Council venues.
12 / 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 / Commissioning and procurement assurance / Incorporated into Council procurement. Ensure all Board member organisations are able to evidence this.
13 / 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. / Procurement and pre-procurement assurance / Included in Council procurement guidance.
Ensure all Board member organisations are able to evidence this.