Prevent is about safeguarding people and communities from the threat of terrorism. Prevent is part of CONTEST, the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy. It aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism and violent extremism.

The Prevent duty is about ensuring that appropriate support is available for individuals who may demonstrate vulnerabilities to radicalisation.

Prevent at Expanse Learning is an extension of our safeguarding processes in the same way that we help safeguard young people from neglect, exploitation, domestic abuse, substance misuse and other forms of harm.

The Prevent duty supports colleges to have due to regard to the need to prevent young people from being drawn into terrorism.

All of our staff undertake Prevent awareness training to equip them to identify young people at risk of being drawn into terrorism and to challenge extremist ideas. Our staff team have a general understanding of the risks affecting young people in the area and a specific understanding of how to identify individual young people who may be at risk of radicalisation and what to do to support them.

We have clear procedures in place for protecting young people at risk of radicalisation, these procedures are set out in our safeguarding policy.