Preventing Extremism and Tackling Radicalisation in Schools 2016 - Programme

Wednesday 25 May 2016
London

09:00 – 09:30

Registration and refreshments

09:30 – 09:45

Chair’s introduction

09:45 – 10:40
Session 1
Legal

Clarify your latest legal duties under The Prevent Agenda and The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015:

  • Understand and meet your latest duties to prevent pupils being drawn into terrorism
  • Clarify what you are now legally required to report and how you will be held to account
  • Gain legal guidance on what action you need to take now to ensure compliance

Dai Durbridge, Partner, Browne Jacobson

10:40 – 11:25
Session 2
Model Policies

Robust, fit-for-purpose policies to prevent and respond appropriately to radicalisation and extremism in your school or college

  • Model policies – gain a comprehensive checklist of what you need to include in your school’s anti-extremism policy
  • Take part in a vital case study discussion and take away a model policy for your school
  • Ensure your policies are in line with Ofsted’s expectations to ensure you are correctly managing extremist views

Dai Durbridge, Partner, Browne Jacobson

11:25 – 11:30

Questions

11:30 – 11:45

Morning Refreshments

11:45 – 12:30
Session 3
‘British Values’

Preventing extremism and safeguarding against radicalisation

  • ‘British Values’ – practical guidance to successfully embed ‘British values’ across your whole school
  • How to promote and encourage acceptance of ‘British values’ through effective discussions and activities
  • Case study: How to ensure positive values permeate your school’s culture and are actively and consistently sustained

Matt Miller, National Leader of Governance Advocate

12:30 – 13:15

Lunch

13:15 – 14:00
Session 4
how young people are radicalised

From Attraction to action – how young people are radicalised

  • Understand the methodology of radicalisation: recruitment and indoctrination methods and the difference between vulnerability and susceptibility
  • Know what differentiates radicalisation from similar abuses like grooming for CSE and coercive control in domestic violence
  • Understand the existing signs of possible radicalisation outlined by Prevent and gain clarity on specific behaviours which arise out of the process

Anne Khodabandeh, Consultant on Cultic Abuse and Terrorism at Open Minds

14:00 – 14:45
Session 5
Prevention without profiling

Prevention without profiling

  • Reporting concerns - conversational strategies to elicit information when concerns are raised by front line staff so as to maintain a relationship of trust
  • Helping children and young people differentiate between radical ideas, extremism and radicalisation
  • Key prevention strategies: Build resilience against what? Develop critical thinking for what context? And how to introduce the ‘Stop and Think’ principle to young people

Anne Khodabandeh, Consultant on Cultic Abuse and Terrorism at Open Minds

14:45 – 15:00

Afternoon Refreshments