Prevent Duty for Schools

As part of Adderley Primary School’s ongoing safeguarding and child protection duties we are fully behind the government’s Prevent Strategy.

From 1 July 2015 all schools are subject to a duty under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, in the exercise of their functions, to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. This duty is known as the Prevent Duty for Schools.

At Adderley, we build pupils’ resilience to radicalisation by promoting fundamental British values and enabling our pupils to challenge extremist views. You can read about what we do to promote British values here.

The statutory guidance refers to the importance of Prevent awareness training to equip staff to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and to challenge extremist ideas. The Home Office has developed a core training product for this purpose – Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP). All our staff have received WRAP training sessions from West Midlands police and the Resilience Officer for Birmingham on what Prevent is about and how to deal with any issues they may see inside or outside school. Senior Leaders have also completed the the full training on Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE).

Click here to download our parent pamphlet on the Prevent strategy

Please click here for a link to the Prevent Duty for Schools.

Please click here for a link to the official Prevent Strategy document.

Click here to view our Prevent Risk Assessment 2023-2024

You can find our policies to tackle radicalisation and extremism here.

Government advice site for parents.