The Prevent duty is the duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 on specified authorities, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

Training at Watermill around these issues has allowed the staff and Governors to access a range of Materials that are linked below. The Link Governor in this area is Stacy Sharman, a prevent trainer in her own right. Matthew Coupe, Deputy Headteacher is the lead in the school.

• All staff have completed the online awareness training linked here.

The local authority contact for making referrals is:

prevent@staffordshire.pnn.police.uk

Our school contacts at the LA for Prevent are sarah.dyer@stoke.gov.uk or shazad.tahir@stoke.gov.uk They can be contacted with any concerns or for further information.

• Channel Referral Guidance Prevent here