Guidance for Prevent submission data via NHS Digital Strategic Data Collection System (SDCS)

The Counter Terrorism & Security Act 2015 places a legal duty on NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts to consider the Prevent Strategy when delivering their services. The key elements of this duty are further outlined in the Revised Prevent Duty Guidance, which refers to the Department of Health’s Building Partnerships Staying Safe Guidance document as the way health organisations should deliver Prevent. These obligations are reinforced by Clause 32 of the Standard NHS Contract. Also the NHS England Prevent Training and Competencies Framework provides guidance on the level and type of training that health organisations should deliver in order to deliver their obligations under the Prevent Duty. The Intercollegiate document for Safeguarding Children and Young People also provides guidance on the requirements of health professionals on the level of skills and competencies they need in specific roles.

The Prevent Strategy, which forms part of the National Counter Terrorism Strategy CONTEST, is overseen by the Home Office by their Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT). The OSCT fund Regional Prevent Coordinators in NHS England. These Coordinators are intended to support the health sector covered by the Prevent Duty to comply with the requirements placed on them by this Duty and the associated guidance documents.

The data/information subject to the data submission process is collected from NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts in the Home Office identified Priority Areas. This provides the necessary assurance that the priority area organisations are compliant with the Prevent Duty. All Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) should be collecting the same information, so they can ensure all NHS funded providers are delivering the key elements of the Prevent Strategy in their service delivery as specified in the Standard Contract as well as any local variations/additions to specific contracts.

The aim of the data collection is to demonstrate how NHS Providers are delivering the key elements of the Duty. These include identified Prevent Leads, delivery of awareness training, the level of referrals made and the engagement with relevant partnership forums that coordinate the Prevent Strategy at local and regional levels. It should assist NHS providers in identifying potential areas for development and give CCGs an assurance framework on which they monitor their commissioned providers’ delivery of the Prevent strategy.

It is all NHS trusts and foundation trusts that are required to submit this data/information to NHS England via SDCS.

CCGs should collect the same data from their commissioned providers currently via the existing worksheet based process.

Data should be submitted using the launch and submission date timetable  Each due date gives Prevent leads five working days to submit the template after the quarter ends.

NHS England will provide NHS Digital with email addresses for the people who submitted previous data collections into Unify2. NHS Digital will then contact those people and provide instructions on how to use SDCS.

Prevent Leads can email [email protected] if they have any questions.

Once the SDCS template has been submitted, Prevent Leads should separately email the same template to their CCG. If any amendments mean the template needs to be re-submitted, then Prevent Leads should email their CCG again with the amended template.

Collection question

1. Organisation

2. Organisation Lead

3. Prevent Lead

4. Total number of current employees and volunteers

Basic Prevent Awareness Training (BPAT) Level 1-2

5. Total number of employees and volunteers assessed as requiring to be in date with BPAT (to comply with the Prevent Duty).

6. Total number of employees and volunteers in your organisation that have received BPAT this quarter.

6a. Percentage of employees and volunteers assessed as requiring BPAT as a proportion of total staff and volunteers.

7. Total number of employees  and volunteers in your organisation currently in date with BPAT (of those who require BPAT to comply with the Prevent Duty).

7a. Percentage of employees and volunteers currently in date with BPAT? (of those who require BPAT to comply with the Prevent Duty) (Red: less than 85%).

8. How does your organisation deliver BPAT to employees and volunteers who require it?

• Preventing Radicalisation - Basic Prevent Awareness (elearning for health) 
• Face to Face Training
• Primary Care Specific
• Other
• No package currently in place

9. How is refresher training delivered for BPAT?

• Preventing Radicalisation - Basic Prevent Awareness (elearning for health )
• Face to Face Training
• Mental Health Specific
• Primary Care Specific
• Blended learning
• Policy updates 
• Other
• No package currently in place

Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 and above

10. Total number of employees and volunteers that your organisation has assessed as requiring to be in date with Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 and above (to comply with the Prevent Duty.

10a. Percentage of employees and volunteers assessed as requiring Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 and above as a proportion of total staff and volunteers.

11. Total number of employees and volunteers in the organisation who have attended Prevent Face to Face Training or completed an approved eLearning Package for Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 or above this quarter.

Of these, please indicate the number of employees and volunteers receiving the Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 or above this quarter by:

11a. Preventing Radicalisation (Mental Health), Level 3.

11b. Preventing Radicalisation: Awareness of Prevent, Level 3 (elearning for health).

12. Total number of employees and volunteers in your organisation that are currently in date with Prevent training for Staff at Level 3 or above (of those who require Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 or above to comply with the Prevent Duty)

12a. Percentage of employees and volunteers currently in date with Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 or above (of those requiring Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 or above training to comply with the Prevent Duty).

13. Total number of Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 or above (including Face to Face Training and approved e-learning Level 3 Training) sessions provided this quarter.

14. How does your organisation deliver Prevent Training for Staff at Level 3 or above refresher inputs for all relevant employees and volunteers?

• Face to Face Training
• Preventing Radicalisation: Level 3 (mental health)
• Preventing Radicalisation:  Level 3 (elearning for health) 
• Blended learning
• Home Office approved Prevent eLearning 
• Other
• No package currently in place

Prevent Policy and Referrals Information

15. Does your organisational systems allow employees to record data relating to referrals appropriately and in line with organisational policy?

• Yes
• No

16. Does your organisation use the National Prevent Referral form when making referrals?

• Yes
• No

17. Total number of Prevent related general enquiries received by your Prevent Lead this quarter from an external organisation.

18. Total number of referrals made to your Prevent Lead for assessment and consideration this quarter from inside your organisation.

19. Total number of referrals made from your Prevent Lead to the police/local authority Prevent Referral Portal this quarter.

20. Number of individual referral cases for which your organisation has been requested to provide information during assessment for Channel or management by Channel Panel during this quarter.

21. Please indicate the number of data sharing requests that have not been fulfilled in this quarter due to:

• The request was made too close to the required deadline date in order to reasonably respond
• Did not have the capacity to support the request in the time period
• Not sent due to information sharing concerns
• Other

22. Does your organisation have clinical links to the Channel panel?

• Yes
• No

23a. Does your organisation send a representative to the Channel Panel?

• Always
• Sometimes
• No

23b. Do representatives from your organisation attend any of the following Prevent Related meetings?

• Local Channel Panel
• Regional Channel Panel
• Regional Prevent Forums
• Local Prevent Oversight Boards
• Community Safety Partnerships
• CONTEST Board
• Other

24. Is your Prevent policy a stand-alone or is it integrated into your Safeguarding policies?

• Stand-alone policy
• Integrated policy
• No Prevent policy currently in place

25. When was the Prevent Policy last reviewed?

• Within the last 12 months
• Between 12-24 months
• Over 24 months ago
• N/A

26. Does your organisation have a Prevent Delivery Plan?

• Yes
• No

27. Is your Prevent Delivery Plan compliant with the Self-Assessment Tool provided by the Building Partnership Staying Safe Guidance?

• Yes
• No
• N/A

28. Does your organisation consent to data/information submitted as part of this collection being shared in order to assist in the delivery of Prevent?

• Yes
• No

This section needs to be completed by Mental Health (MH) Trusts only

29. (MH Trusts only) Total number of referrals received by Prevent Lead from Channel Panel/Police citing a potential MH need that could be relevant to their vulnerability and therefore need an assessment.

30. (MH Trusts only) Out of the number of referrals that were received, what number were offered an assessment within 1 week?

Percentage of referrals where the offer of an assessment was within 1 week

31. (MH Trusts only) Out of the number of referrals that were received, what number resulted in a diagnosis/confirmation that there is a relevant MH issue prevalent?

32. (MH Trusts only) Has your trust appointed a Senior Clinical Lead for Prevent?

• Yes
• No

33. (MH Trusts only) If you do have a Senior Clinical Lead, do they attend Channel Panel?

• Yes
• No