Ofsted report on PREVENT duty implementation in Further Education

Since 18 September 2015, further education and skills providers have been placed under a legal duty to have ‘due regard’ to the risk of learners being drawn into terrorism.

On 12 July 2016, Ofsted issued a report on how well Further Education Learning Providers were meeting theses duties.

Key findings included:

• The quality of staff training was ineffective in a third of the providers visited.
  
• Thirteen providers had been slow in putting the duty into practice.
  
• Two of the eight independent learning providers visited had not implemented any aspect of the ‘Prevent’ duty.
  
• The quality of risk assessments and action plans to reduce the risk of radicalisation and extremism was poor in 11 of the providers. Two independent learning providers had no risk assessments in place at all. Of the other nine providers, most adopted a ‘tick-box’ approach to risk assessment rather than conducting a comprehensive evaluation of risks.
  
• Leaders in nearly half the providers visited did not adequately protect learners from the risk of radicalisation and extremism when using IT systems.
  
• Twenty-two of the 37 providers visited had implemented the ‘Prevent’ duty well. General further education and sixth form colleges were the most successful.
  
• Leaders at the general further education and sixth form colleges visited were the most successful at implementing all aspects of the ‘Prevent’ duty.
  
• Partnership working was often not effective.
  
• Independent learning providers’ arrangements for sharing information were ineffective.
  
• Some senior leaders did not pass on information about strategic developments with external partners to their middle managers. Communications within some providers were not effective. Managers with responsibility for implementation were often too distant from decision-making processes.
  
• Vetting and monitoring of external speakers were inadequate in around a quarter of the providers.

Read the full Report via the following link

How well are further education and skills providers implementing the ‘Prevent’ duty?

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