1. Prevent in Bradford District
Michael Churley – BMDC Prevent Co-ordinator

2. CONTEST – Counter Terrorism Strategy
Pursue
Prepare
Protect
Prevent

3. Prevent in Bradford District
Education
Safeguarding
Transparency
Partnership

4. Current Risks/Vulnerabilities
Travel to Syria/Iraq – ISIL
Global terrorists motivate attacks in UK
Domestic Extremism
On-line radicalisation
Charitable fundraising

5. Change in terrorist threat
Al Qaeda
ISIL
Elitist, Cellular organisation
Command and Control
Limited size and resourcing
Limited communications/media strategy
Planned high profile attacks
Membership ‘Younger’ men
Easy to join
Mass movement – forming a State/Caliphate.
Significant resourcing
Mass information from members
All supporters encouraged to act ‘without seeking advice or verdict’
All now vulnerable

6. Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 Counter Extremism Strategy (launched October 2015)

7. Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015
Prevent Duty:
Measures to support people at risk of being drawn into radicalisation
Creating a general duty on a range of organisations to have due regard to the need to prevent people being drawn into terrorism.
Putting the voluntary programme for people at risk of radicalisation on a statutory basis.

8. Prevent Duty What is Extremism
The government has defined extremism as: “vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. We also include in our definition of extremism calls for the death of members of our armed forces”.

9. Prevent Duty in Practice
A number of specified authorities are required to fulfil the duty:
Local Authorities
Police
Prison/Probation
Schools
Health
Further and Higher Education

10. Prevent Duty in Practice
3 key themes:
effective leadership
working in partnership
appropriate capabilities

11. Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent
SAFEGUARDING Training:
Non-alarmist
Real case studies
Common sense/professional judgement
Shared decision-making

12. Channel Process
Identifying individuals who may be at risk of and vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism
Assessing the nature and extent of the risk
Where necessary, referring cases to a multi agency panel for development of the most appropriate support package to divert and support the individual at risk.

13. Rewind UK Key Achievements
The project has informed approaches to tackling racism and extremism within educational contexts.Excellent rapport between Rewind trainers and trainees/students.The creation of a safe environment by Rewind trainers in which taboos and challenging topics can be explored.The facilitation of information sharing and networking between schools that occurred during the training-the-trainer course.
Areas for Improvement
Using up-to-date case studies, materials and topics (e.g. digital literacy).Examining the ways in which the information is delivered to students (e.g. more active learning strategies).Spending more time on the ways in students are prepared to deliver peer-education activities.Rethinking the ways in which students are selected for the training.

14. Resilience

15. Whose
Poppy?
Malala
Conscientious
Objectors

16. Supporters, Protestors, Activists or Extremists?
Criticism – incorrectly implicates political dissenters
Is a big brother network to spy on innocent people.

17. Or Extremists

18. A model for understanding the difference?
Extremist
Activist
Protestor
Supporter

19. Alienation Part of broader agenda to alienate all Muslim communities.
Not up to the Government to determine an ‘acceptable’ form of Islam

21. 22nd January 2016. Bradford mosques and. schools praised by
22nd January Bradford mosques and schools praised by Government minister Lord Ahmad, minister for countering extremism, on a visit to Bradford City Hall

22. Key points:
Safeguarding
Education
Proportionality

23. THANK YOU