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This applies across both settings. It sets out the duty we hold under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, and what our staff are trained to do.
The "Prevent Duty" is a duty that all early years' providers and settings must adhere to as outlined in Section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (the Act). It places a duty on certain bodies (listed in Schedule 6 to the Act), in the exercise of their functions, to have "due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".
Early years providers have a critical part to play. Nurseries serve arguably the most vulnerable and impressionable members of society. In England, the Department for Education accordingly places clear duties on providers to keep children safe and promote their welfare. It makes clear that to protect children in their care, providers must be alert to any safeguarding and child protection issues in the child's life at home or elsewhere. Similarly, the following guidance documents issues by the DfE, The Prevent duty: Departmental advice for schools and childcare providers and Keeping Children Safe in Education, outline the responsibility on providers to safeguard children from radicalisation. Providers have a responsibility to protect children from extremist and violent views the same way we protect them from drugs or gang violence. We can provide a safe place for children to understand the values and attitudes that will help to prevent them from being drawn into danger.
Childcare and Early Years Providers subject to the Prevent Duty will be expected to safeguard children from extremist views and radicalisation through:
Implementing of robust safeguarding policies.
Ensuring that staff have training that gives them the knowledge and confidence to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism, and to challenge extremist ideas used to legitimise terrorism.
Ensuring children are safe from terrorist and extremist material and people who may hold extreme views.
The designated Prevent Duty Officer is Mrs Nasima Bobat.
If anything in this policy raises a question, please get in touch and we will talk it through with you.
How children are accounted for, and what happens if one cannot be found.
How adults respond to behaviour without punishment.
Accidents, fire, food and allergies, and the rules that hold inside the building.
When to keep your child at home, how long to wait, and medicine during a session.