Prevent

What is Prevent?

Prevent is the Government's strategy to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, in all its forms. Prevent works at the pre criminal stage by using early intervention to encourage individuals and communities to challenge extremist and terrorist ideology and behavior.

As part of Mersey Drive’s ongoing safeguarding and child protection duties, we are fully behind the government’s PREVENT strategy.

From July 1st 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 Mersey Drive Primary School, we build pupils’ resilience to radicalization by promoting fundamental British values and enabling our pupils to challenge extremist views.

Making a referral

If you have concerns about an individual, you can make a referral into Prevent.

 To do this simply fill out the correct referral form and send it to the following email addresses:

At the heart of Prevent is safeguarding children and adults and providing early intervention to protect and divert people away from being drawn into terrorist activity.

If you are not sure whether you should make a referral you can speak to the Prevent team or call the GMP Prevent Team on 0161 856 6362. There are no daft questions and they are happy to talk things through with you.

Or you can fill in the form and send it to channel.project@gmp.police.uk and gmchannel@manchester.gov.uk

If person is under 18 also send the form to - childwellbeing@bury.gov.uk

or if they over 18 please send to adultcareservices@bury.gov.ukf