Prevent counter-terrorism training is unregulated and often superficial despite its grave stakes.

Evidence

Strictly, every person in a public-facing role within all of the authorities subject to the Prevent duty should be trained; this new responsibility is too serious, and the consequences too grave, for it to be carried out by people working in different disciplines who may be unclear as to what they are expected to do. This training should also include an anti-discrimination component and cover authorities’ responsibilities under the PSED. More than two years since the duty came into force there remain serious concerns in every sector regarding the quality, content and coverage of the training, which comes in a variety of packages put together by different agencies, without any validation or regulation. For example, a BMJ survey was told by an NHS Trust in London ‘94% of staff have had basic level one Prevent training’. However, that training consists of ‘information leaflets supported by a quiz’ (Gulland 2017). — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 416

Categorization

• CANDY: The NHS ‘training’ being ‘information leaflets supported by a quiz’ is a neat, grimly funny fact for a conversation about performative safeguarding.
• XREF: connects to: Prevent training is unregulated and often as thin as leaflets plus a quiz — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 411

Related

• Prevent training is unregulated and often as thin as leaflets plus a quiz (similarity 0.97)
• Prevent alienates the Muslim communities it claims to engage. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Prevent training is unregulated and often as thin as leaflets plus a quiz #corroborates (0.90) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 411