Schools: Radicalism

(asked on 3rd March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in state-funded schools have received Prevent awareness training.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 11th March 2016

It is important that school staff have the training they need to equip them to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and to challenge extremist ideas. Individual schools are best placed to assess their training needs in the light of their assessment of the risk. The Department’s core statutory safeguarding guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education makes clear that, as a minimum, designated safeguarding leads in schools and colleges should be trained in Prevent. This is available on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2

To help raise awareness of Prevent and issues around radicalisation amongst front line staff, the Home Office is continuing to roll out freely available Workshops to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP). There are a number of professionals, particularly in safeguarding roles, many of whom work within local authorities and the police, who are accredited WRAP facilitators. There has been a significant increase in the number of WRAP training sessions delivered since the end of 2014. The greatest volume of WRAP training has taken place in schools with a significant increase in numbers of staff trained. Over 32,000 staff within schools were WRAP trained in 2015. Home Office does not hold separate data on training in different types of schools or the frequency of Prevent training.

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