BIRMINGHAM Police & Schools Panels
PREVENT Resources & Signposting
EDUCATE.AGAINST.HATE: The website provides practical advice and support to help all individuals with an interest in keeping children safe from the dangers of extremism. This site has been created by the Department for Education and the Home Office.
PREVENT RADICALISATION AND EXTREMISM BY ACTING EARLY: It can be hard to know what to do if you're worried someone close is expressing extreme views or hatred, which could lead to them harming themselves or others. Working with other organisations, the Police protect vulnerable people from being exploited by extremists through a Home Office programme called PREVENT.
Act early and tell us your concerns in confidence. You won't be wasting our time and you won't ruin lives, but you might save them.
SINCE 9/11: Is a UK educational charity, set up on the tenth anniversary of September 11th 2001 to ensure that the legacy of 9/11 is one that builds hope from tragedy. They offer a FREE Education Programme created by the world acclaimed UCL's Institute of Education for all UK secondary schools focuses on teaching the events, causes and consequences of 9/11 in an attempt to create a better, peaceful and harmonious future.
Most children starting secondary school today were not born at the time of the terrorist attacks on 11th September 2001. This education programme encourages students to discuss and debate events and issues surrounding 9/11; developing critical thinking skills and promoting intercultural dialogue by exploring different cultural and political perspectives. Wider impacts of terrorism and extremism are looked at in a UK context, with the impact on free speech and civil liberties investigated. Web-based resources provide information and interactive resources for teachers.
WRAP TRAINING: Short for Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent. An introduction to the work of the CTU, the PREVENT team and to the issues surrounding radicalisation (approximately 1hr 20mins). Predominantly aimed at front line public sector workers and organisations that work with potential victims of radicalisation. Schools are being asked to allocate a member of staff to attend train-the-trainer sessions, and then cascade this training to their colleagues. For dates of upcoming training, please contact Razia Butt (details below).
PREVENT: Any concerns regarding radicalisation should be referred to West Midlands Police via CTU_Gateway@west-midlands.pnn.police.uk in addition to this, concerns around persons under 18years old, should ALSO be referred into Birmingham MASH. (Multi agency safe guarding hub). Following an assessment, the case could be reviewed via the Channel process, (Multi agency professional panel who look to support vulnerable individuals who are vulnerable to, or showing early signs of radicalisation). Not all cases will be adopted by the channel panel, but some maybe suitable for local prevent officer engagement.
CASS@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk or Tel: 011 303 1888.
ONLINE AWARENESS RAISING TRAINING MODULE:
http://course.ncalt.com/Channel_General_Awareness/01/index.html - Staff training, which can form part of your schools PREVENT strategy and risk assessment; it can also form part of your schools safeguarding audit. At the end of the module staff members will need to print of their certificate of completion, by entering their details. (Nb. It must be completed within one session, without closing the internet browser).
THEATRE IN SCHOOLS: The Play House is available to deliver TAPESTY, a dynamic participatory theatre-in-education tour for 13-18 year olds, which explores the implications and consequences of extremist thinking and actions. W: http://theplayhouse.org.uk/tapestry/ E: info@theplayhouse.org.uk
DUE DILLIGENCE CHECKS: All schools are reminded to undertaken open source due-diligence checks on any company, director or performers that you invite to your schools. Please consider contacting other schools for references, to ensure that you are paying for a ‘safe’ product. It is also important to review how the company measure the impact of their performances (not just satisfaction surveys) and ask what sort of classroom resources the company provide that will embed the performance within the curriculum and ongoing work in your school.
ONLINE RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS: www.preventforschools.org – A variety of resources which can be used to help educate and safeguard pupils in your school.
NATIONAL COUNTER TERRORISM SECURITY OFFICE (NaCTSO)
DEVELOPING DYNAMIC LOCKDOWN PROCEDURES
WORKING WITH MOTHERS TO PREVENT TRAGEDIES LEAFLET
HM GOVERNMENT
USEFUL BIRMINGHAM CONTACTS FOR SCHOOLS:
Waqar Ahmed is the PREVENT lead for Birmingham – Waqar.Ahmed@birmingham.gov.uk
Razia Butt (Resilience Adviser) for Schools - Razia.Butt@birmingham.gov.uk
Micho Moyo (School Advisor - Safeguarding, Children & Young People) - Micho.H.Moyo@birmingham.gov.uk