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PREVENT (DRAFT)

Checked: 28-08-2025 by Jenny Henry Next Review: 27-08-2027

Overview

Prevent is the multi-agency set of arrangements aimed at preventing individuals and groups from engaging in violent extremism. It is also a safeguarding mechanism to support vulnerable individuals who could be susceptible to radicalisation and exploitation by extremist groups.

Prevent: An Introduction - This YouTube video gives an introduction to how Prevent works on the ground, told by those who have come into contact with the programme.

Prevent duty: guidance for healthcare professionals - From the Department of Health & Social Care

The Channel Panel is the multi-agency mechanism that oversees and co-ordinates Prevent interventions. The Panel has a statutory basis under the terms of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015.

Channel Panels are held in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire by the individual Local Authorities. If one of your patients is referred into Channel and accepted, you will be approached by the Channel co-ordinators for your locality and asked to share any relevant and proportionate information to aid the decision-making process with regards to any action required. Please ensure that when you are asked for information, any requests and responses that are recorded on EMIS are hidden from patient view. Channel is a highly confidential process. Whilst your patients will be made aware that they are in the Channel process (consent is required to engage), this will happen in a controlled manner by Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) when it is deemed to be an appropriate time. This is to keep the individual and the public safe.

If you know your patient well, you may be invited to attend a Channel meeting to support the multiagency discussions.

These arrangements are applicable to children as well as adults.

Training

The NHS has an important role in supporting people referred to Prevent and working with people who would benefit from the safeguarding support that a referral can provide. More information is available in e-learning aligned to safeguarding competency levels:

Preventing Radicalisation-Basic Prevent Awareness (Levels 1&2)
Preventing Radicalisation- Awareness of Prevent (Level 3)

Both packages are accessed through Health Education England’s E-learning for Health platform and training will contribute to your level 3 safeguarding competency.

Government training courses to learn how to support people susceptible to radicalisation are available online and cover Awareness (and refresher Awareness), Referrals and Channel or Prevent Multi-Agency Panel (PMAP) courses. They can be found at Prevent duty training

Information sharing

Guidance for information sharing for Prevent and Channel - NHSE Prevent - information sharing guide

Local Information - Bristol

Bristol Prevent policies and procedures

North Somerset - Prevent

Local Information - South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire - Prevent

Resources

BNSSG ICB's PREVENT Policy

PREVENT Statutory Guidance 01/04/2022

FACTSHEET: Prevent and Channel - 2021

Make a complaint about Prevent

Sharing personal information with another organisation

Rapid reads

Information Sharing for Prevent & Channel

The Act Early Campaign

The Channel process

Counter Terrorism Local Profiles

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) & Prevent Referrals

The Govt. Security Classifications & Prevent

Extremist Ideologies: Incels

Prevent Data Assurance

Prevent training guidance and resources

The Prevent Duty: A guide for Clinical Commissioning Groups

Police Led Partnerships

Symbols that are linked with extremism

Resources Search | ADL

https://globalextremism.org/global-extremist-symbols-database/

Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.

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