Enhancing Counter Terrorism Efforts Through Community Partnerships
The Prevent CSO Strategy focuses on aligning partnerships with Counter Terrorism objectives to address radicalization causes and provide early interventions. A new Funding Model administered by Groundwork aims to empower Local Authorities to bid for Prevent projects. The Counter Terrorism Local Profile offers recommendations to raise awareness, provide interventions, enhance training, and support community engagement. Challenges include communication gaps, engaging hard-to-reach groups, sustainability, and building resilience.
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Preventing Radicalisation Home Office Funding LESLEY GRAY PRINCIPAL SAFER COMMUNITIES OFFICER, SAFER COMMUNITIES TEAM NYCC 12THOCTOBER 2022
Prevent Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Strategy The Prevent CSO Strategy sets out the ambition to ensure our future partnership work with CSOs is closely aligned to Counter Terrorism (CT) objectives, effectively utilising cross-cutting capabilities within the Prevent Directorate to tackle the causes of radicalisation and provide early interventions. Capability Building: increases sustainability, ensures best practice in Prevent project delivery and equips partners to deliver effective interventions against radicalising influences. Targeted projects and communication activity: builds resilience to radicalisation and supports early intervention in Prevent funded and non-funded areas Engagement: facilitates greater networking opportunities, enables insight into community sentiment and promotes transparency Our new Funding Model called Preventing Radicalisation will be administered by Groundwork our Grant Administrator (GA) and will be officially launching in September The funding initiative will be available for Local Authorities (LAs) to bid for a Prevent project, if they identify a radicalisation threat/risk. (450K = max 30K per application)
Counter Terrorism Local Profile (CTLP) Recommendations Raise awareness for both professionals and public via an effective multi agency communications strategy._ including social media and online opportunities, to encourage the public, including friends and family, to report concerns. interventions that will support communities, groups and individuals e.g. Wake Up Call, KYMS game. To develop and implement an effective multi-agency training programme. The training will be influenced by identified local need and findings from the Counter Terrorism Local Profile. It will aim to Enhance our knowledge and understanding of Extreme Right Wing Terrorism Enhance our knowledge around on-line extremism and radicalisation Increase our understanding of hate crime and community tensions Support Prevent delivery via an effective Prevent champion s programme. In line with the requirements of the Prevent duty, there will be a specific focus on partners activity to develop and deliver improved Local risk assessments Prevent partnership plan Venue hire and IT policies Engagement delivery with local communities. To continue to develop and deliver programmes and
Gaps/challenges Communication Engagement with those organisations outside statutory settings hard to reach groups Sustainability Capacity Ongoing building of resilience Knowing what is needed and what already exists
How can you help to build resilience within our communities? Creative approach A community ambassador approach Training resources to raise awareness on prevent/radicalisation - can link to Hate Crime i.e electronic training such as short films/videos specific to NY risks Community messaging (populate messages timely to address growing threats/risks i.e online safety) Mentoring (critical thinking)
Discussion.Ideas T & F Group to explore further?
