Authors Tony Stanley et al
Published by Practice: Social Work in Action, 30 (2018)
The 2015 Prevent duty mandates social workers and other professionals "to pay due regard" to possible radicalisation concerns. However, there is currently no guidance on how practitioners might do this.
This paper brings together learning from a series of practitioner events to:
Policy context
The Prevent programme was introduced as part of the previous Labour government's wider social inclusion approach. It was embedded in community cohesion and aimed to win "hearts and minds", especially of vulnerable young people experiencing discrimination and disaffection. One strand of Prevent was Channel, which was a mechanism for de-radicalising young people identified by Prevent as needing support to move away from radical ideas.
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