Decision details

Prevent Strategy Update

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

Matt Leng, Community Safety Manager, LB Barnet provided an update on the Prevent Strategy.  He reported that:

·           Partners had been holding monthly meetings with Middlesex University;

·           148 GP’s had been prevent trained at a recent conference;

·           456 staff in partner agencies had been prevent trained;

·           The Community Safety Team had implemented a secure IT system for liaison with partners; and

·           A public building audit had taken place assess for target hardening.  

 

The Board were reminded of the five Prevent Strategy objectives which were:

·           Partnerships;

·           Risk Assessments;

·           Prevent Action Plan;

·           Staff training; and

·           Use of local authority resources

 

The Board were informed that Home Office funding 2016/17 had been secured for 2017/18 to support the following posts in Barnet:

 

Prevent Co-ordinator

Prevent Education Officer

Community Co-ordinator

 

He reported that next steps were:

·           Development of an Executive Summary; and

·           Creation of a Prevent Strategy KPI dashboard.

 

The Board noted the Prevent Strategy update.

 

Publication date: 04/10/2017

Date of decision: 21/07/2017

Decided at meeting: 21/07/2017 - Safer Communities Partnership Board