Target Audience/Eligibility Criteria
Level 1 is for all staff working in the healthcare settings, including non-clinical managers and staff. Level 2 is for all non-clinical and clinical staff who regular contact with patients, their families or carers, or the public. In a GP Practice this may include: GP Practice Managers, Clinical Reception Managers. Those that need Level 3 do not need to complete Level 1 and 2 first. Level 3 (see next page) is for all clinical staff working with children and young people and/or their parents/carers and clinical staff who contribute to assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of adults. In General Practice, this includes all GP’s, ANPs, PNs and Counsellors.
Background
The Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT) in the Home Office is responsible for providing strategic direction and governance on CONTEST. Prevent is one of the four key principles of the CONTEST strategy, which aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. The Health Sector contribution to Prevent focuses primarily on Objectives 2 and 3 only. CONTEST is primarily organised around four key principles/programmes, each with a specific objective:
- Pursue – to disrupt or stop terrorist attacks.
- Protect – to strengthen our protection against a terrorist attack by strengthening borders, buildings, public spaces and infrastructures.
- Prepare – where an attack cannot be stopped, to reduce its impact.
- Prevent – to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.
Prevent has 3 national objectives:
- Objective 1: respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat we face from those who promote it.
- Objective 2: prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure that they are given appropriate advice and support.
- Objective 3: work with sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation which need to be addressed.
Course Aim
This course provides a very brief introduction to Prevent.
Course Duration
Between approximately 5 and 15 minutes
Trainer/Facilitator
The Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT)
Date/Time/Venue
This resource can be utilised at any time.
Booking Process/Additional Information
Competency at level 1 and level 2 can be aquired by completing targeted Prevent training, including:
- Basic Prevent Awareness (level 1 to 2) e-learning (e-LfH)
- Prevent awareness e-learning (GOV.UK)
- Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Safeguarding people with a vulnerability to radicalisation e-learning (accessible by registering as a user on the RCGP website)
This course should be repeated as a minimum every 3 years