Wiggles & Giggles Day Nursery
Policies and Procedures
Wiggles & Giggles Day Nursery
Preventing extremism and radicalisation
This policy is based on information provided by:
DfE (2015) The Prevent Duty
DfE (2015/16) Guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education
Counter-Terrorism and Security Act (2015)
Wiggles and Giggles ensures the following rules and procedures are followed to safeguard our children, staff and visitors from extremism and radicalisation.
From 1 July 2015, all registered early years childcare providers are subject to a duty under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, in the exercise of their functions, to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.
Wiggles and Giggles has a safeguarding duty to identify children who may be vulnerable to radicalisation and what to do once they have been identified. We achieve this by promoting and teaching British values and supporting our children to challenge extremist views. The statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage supports this by setting standards for learning, development and care for children from 0-5, which assists their personal, social and emotional development and understanding of the world.
What to do if you have a concern
You should follow Wiggles & Giggles usual Safeguarding Procedures; alternatively, you can contact the police force on 101 for advice or any Solihull contacts from Safeguarding and Welfare Contact numbers located around the nursery.
How Wiggles & Giggles Prevents Extremism and Radicalisation
· Embedding British Values into our curriculum and nursery ethos
· Delivering the learning and development points set out by EYFS Statutory Framework (2017)- focus being PSED and UTW.
· Teach and support Characteristic of an Effective Learner which boost confidence, having their own ideas and resilience.
· Identify and act on risks of children being drawn into terrorism, including support for extremist ideas that are part of terrorist ideology (using professional judgement).
· Refer to Channel programme when necessary.
· Work with Solihull Local Safeguarding Children Board.
· Engage and maintain good communication and relationships with our parents and families.
· E-safety policy to protect our children from exposure.
As part of wider safeguarding responsibilities school staff will be alert to:
• Disclosures by pupils of their exposure to the extremist actions, views or materials of others outside of school, such as in their homes or community groups.
• Graffiti symbols, writing or art work promoting extremist messages or images
• Pupils accessing extremist material online, including through social networking sites
• Parental reports of changes in behaviour, friendship or actions and requests for assistance
• Partner schools, local authority services, and police reports of issues affecting pupils in other schools or settings
• Pupils voicing opinions drawn from extremist ideologies and narratives
• Use of extremist or ‘hate’ terms to exclude others or incite violence
• Intolerance of difference, whether secular or religious or, in line with our equalities policy, views based on, but not exclusive to, gender, disability, homophobia, race, colour or culture
• Attempts to impose extremist views or practices on others
• Anti-Western or Anti-British views
Our school will closely follow any locally agreed procedure as set out by the Local Authority and/or Solihull Safeguarding Children Board, including agreed processes and criteria for safeguarding individuals vulnerable to extremism and radicalisation.
Definitions
British Values are democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Channel Programme -programme designed to provide early support for those children who are vulnerable to extremism.
Extremism - is vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. We also include in our definition of extremism calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas. Terrorist groups very often draw on extremist ideas developed by extremist organisations.
Radicalisation -refers to the process by which a person comes to support terrorism and forms of extremism leading to terrorism. During that process, it is possible to intervene to prevent vulnerable people being drawn into terrorist-related activity.
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