Our work to ensure safeguarding applies to the Prevent Duty. Prevent is one of the four elements of CONTEST, the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy. Action under Prevent is focussed on intervening with individuals to counter radicalisation.
Occasionally, individuals can be susceptible to someone exploiting their trust and radicalising them. This may be through ideologies that go against our shared values and may promote intolerance or glorify acts of violence or harm to themselves or others. There is no single route to radicalisation, and many of the indicators of radicalisation may also signal other wellbeing and safeguarding concerns. Staff should be particularly alert to changes in attitudes or behaviours that may indicate cause for concern. You can read more about signs of radicalisation on the Act Early website.
Section 26 of the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a duty on certain bodies to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. The University Secretary is responsible for Strathclyde’s duties under the Prevent Duty and is supported in this task by the Safeguarding Team.
UK Home Office training for staff on the requirements of the Prevent Duty, including the key indicators of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation, is available at Prevent Duty training.
If you have a safeguarding concern that you feel may include radicalisation, please report this using Report and Support. You can also raise a concern or discuss an issue related to PREVENT by contacting safeguarding@strath.ac.uk.
External Speakers and Events
The University Events Management, Events and Speaker Policy sets out arrangements for the management of events to ensure that they are compliant with our Prevent Duty while also fostering a culture of freedom of expression.
