The Department for Education (DfE) advice outlines how schools and early years and childcare providers can fulfil their new statutory duty to prevent children from being drawn into terrorism.
As of 1 July, all schools, and registered early years and childcare providers are subject to section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, also known as the Prevent duty, which states that they must have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’.
The DfE says protecting children from the risk of radicalisation should be seen as part of providers’ wider safeguarding duties, and therefore should not be burdensome.
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