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