Safe360°PREVENT Duty

Our work to ensure safeguarding applies to the Prevent Duty. 

A safeguarding concern may be related to radicalisation. Occasionally, individuals can be susceptible to someone exploiting their trust and radicalising them. This may be through ideologies that go against our shared values. This may promote intolerance or glorify acts of violence or harm to themselves or others.   

Section 26 of the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a duty on certain bodies to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’.  

The University Secretary is responsible for Strathclyde’s duties under the Prevent Duty.

UK Home Office training for staff on the requirements of the Prevent Duty, including the key indicators of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation, is available at Prevent Duty training. 

If you have a safeguarding concern that you feel may include radicalisation, please report this using Report and Support. 

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Terrorism

UK Terrorism Act 2000: The use of threat of action to influence the government or an international government organisation or to intimidate the public, or a section of the public for the purposes of advancing political, religious, racial or ideological causes. 

Extremism

The government has defined extremism in the Prevent Duty as: 'vocal or active opposition to fundamental British Values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs'.

Radicalisation

Radicalisation refers to the process by which a person comes to support terrorism and extremist ideologies associated with terrorist groups.