SAFEGUARDING & PREVENT
All Further Education providers have a duty to safeguard their students, which includes apprentices. Prevent is about safeguarding our students to keep them both safe and within the law. The Prevent Duty is not about preventing students from having political and religious views and concerns, but about supporting them to use those concerns or act on them in non-extremist ways. What is Safeguarding? Safeguarding is the protection of a person's health, wellbeing, and human rights, and the prevention of abuse, neglect, and harm. It is a collective responsibility to safeguard children, young people, and adults. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as: protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. What is the Prevent Duty? The Prevent duty is a part of the UK's counter-terrorism strategy that aims to stop people from becoming or supporting terrorists. Section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a duty on certain bodies, listed in Schedule 3 of the Act, to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. These statutory bodies include: Education, Health, Social Care and Police. What are the employer’s responsibilities? As an employer who has appointed an apprentice, you have a responsibility to: • Alert Preston College to any concerns regarding your work-based learner to allow us to explore what the causes might be • Provide opportunities for employees to discuss their own concerns about extremism, events in the news and about British values • Be alert to any changes in your apprentice’s behaviour, that in your professional opinion gives you cause for concern • To help protect your apprentice(s) from the associated with radicalisation and extremism we have included a link with training activity which we encourage you and your apprentice to carry out together. Please visit: www.elearning.prevent.homeoffice.gov.uk Reporting safeguarding or prevent concerns involving an apprentice If you have a concern, would like more information or have any questions, please contact our Safeguarding Team via safeguarding@preston.ac.uk or by telephoning Student Services on 01772 225656 , asking for the Duty Safeguarding Officer .
You will find more details about the Prevent Duty in our Safeguarding and Prevent policy , available on our website at www.preston.ac.uk
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