National Guidance

Action Counters Terrorism (ACT)

The Government’s ACT Campaign seeks to raise awareness about the terrorism threat and provides advice on what the public can do to help.

The ACT website (linked below) provides a one stop shop for the online reporting tool, advice, campaign materials, and links to supportive information.

ACT Campaign

Building Partnerships, Staying Safe

These guidance documents have been developed for Healthcare organisations and workers outlining their responsibilities around PREVENT.

Building Partnerships, Staying Safe – Guidance for Healthcare organisations

Building Partnerships, Staying Safe – Guidance for Healthcare Workers

Channel Process

The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 introduced the ‘Channel’ process. Channel is a multi-agency safeguarding programme providing tailored support to people who have been identified as at risk of being drawn into terrorism.  The support offered can come from any of the partners on the Panel which includes the local authority, police, education and health providers. The person’s engagement in the programme is voluntary at all stages. This guidance is intended for members of a panel and partners of local panels in England and Wales on the duty to provide support for people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism

Channel Duty Guidance (2015)

Factsheet: Prevent and Channel

Contest

The United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism

icn_pdf Contest Strategy

NHS England Guidance

The documents below provide guidance updates from NHS England:

icn_pdf Health Sector Prevent Priorities

icn_pdf Prevent Mental Health Guidance

See It. Say It. Sorted.

The British Transport Police’s security campaign “See it. Say it. Sorted” can support school trip leaders in the event that trips are taken by rail / coach and can be found here:

See it. Say it. Sorted

The National Counter Terrorism Security Office provide protective security advice:

National Counter Terrorism Security Office

 Revised PREVENT Duty Guidance

This document provides general guidance on the duty on specified authorities in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015.

Revised Prevent Duty Guidance

PREVENT Duty Advice for Schools and Childcare providers

This document provides guidance on the PREVENT duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 for schools and childcare providers.

PREVENT Duty Advice for Schools and Childcare Providers

PREVENT Duty Guidance for Further Education

See link below for guidance on the PREVENT duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 for Further Education Institutions.

Prevent Duty Guidance for Further Education

PREVENT Duty Guidance for Higher Education

See link below for guidance on the PREVENT duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 for Higher Education Institutions.

Prevent Duty Guidance for Higher Education

Prevent Duty Toolkit for Local Authorities

The Prevent Duty Toolkit for Local Authorities and Partner Agencies provides practical information and examples of best practice to support local authorities and their partners in their work to implement the Prevent duty. It supplements the Prevent Duty Guidance: for England and Wales, and will assist in the consideration of existing statutory guidance. It includes content on:

  • Local risk assessment process
  • Multi-agency partnership board
  • Prevent partnership action plan
  • Referral process
  • Channel panel
  • Prevent problem solving proves
  • Training programme
  • Venue hire and IT policies
  • Community and civil society engagement
  • Communications

icn_pdf Prevent Duty Toolkit for Local Authorities

Safer Giving

Please see information below on how to give safely to charity, from the Charity Commission for England and Wales:

How To Give Safely to Charities

Home Office Guidance: Prevent and Channel – 2021

Due to recent media interest in Prevent, the following information has been provided by the Home Office to provide factual background on the programme:

FACTSHEET: Prevent and Channel – 2021 – Home Office in the media (blog.gov.uk)

Terrorist attack in Liverpool: Information and Resources from the Home Office

You will have seen the distressing news of a taxi explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital, which has now been declared a terrorist incident by Counter-Terrorism Policing. The incident led to one fatality and a further person, who was driving the taxi, suffered injuries and has since been released from hospital.

Four men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act, however the motivation behind the attack, and the intended target, remain unclear. We would like to remind practitioners again of the serious risks in commenting publicly on matters concerning any potential or actual legal proceedings, because of the risk of prejudicing those proceedings – we would also recommend reiterating this to any organisations you may work with in your area.

We also wanted to highlight that the national terrorist threat level has been raised to SEVERE. This means that an attack is ‘highly likely’. The decision to raise the threat level is independently assessed by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC). Details about how these decisions are made can be found here.

Given that Sunday’s incident has so closely followed the dreadful murder of Sir David Amess last month, we wanted to extend our thanks and recognition of the important work you do and pressures that you may be under locally. To try and help with any conversations and community outreach you may be leading on, below are a number of resources which you may find useful.

Support for Victims of Terrorism

We know that terrorist incidents can have a devastating impact on the family, friends, peers and community surrounding victims of terrorism and so wanted to remind areas that support is available for those who have been affected:

  • The Support for Victims of Terrorism page includes relevant helplines, support organisations and a printable leaflet
  • The Resilience in Unity Project has recently launched a mapping tool to record the stories and testimony of people affected by acts of terrorism around the world and provide resources for schools, practitioners and communities. You can access the tool and the project’s resource hub here.

Hate Crime Resources

While details of Sunday’s incident are still emerging, we are conscious that attacks like these can lead to spikes in hate crime and that many communities in Liverpool and beyond may be feeling vulnerable. As always, we want to make clear that such action is not tolerated and should always be reported – national guidance on how to do so can be found here, with additional resources available at the below links:

  • True Vision have created a collection of downloadable posters on reporting hate crime, alongside other resources and materials including guidance on reporting a hate crime. All are accessible on their website.
  • Tell Mama, which works to tackle anti-Muslim hatred, has developed a number of posters specifically on reporting Islamophobic hate crime, as well as tips on personal safety. All resources can be found here.
  • Stop Hate UK has also developed various hate crime resources – PDFs are not currently hosted on their website but can be accessed by emailing info@stophateuk.org. Their website is available to read in multiple languages.

New ‘ACT Early’ Videos

CTP has recently launched two new ‘letters to my younger self’ films as part of its ‘ACT Early’ campaign, aiming to bring to life real stories of extremism and radicalisation. You can watch the new films here, alongside accessing other resources such as social media copy in the campaign’s partner toolkit – please do use these as appropriate and share among your own networks.