A New Direction is committed to safeguarding all children and Young People that come into contact with our work. This includes safeguarding individuals from radicalisation and being drawn into terrorism.

We believe that all children and young people have an equal right to protection from abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect regardless of their age, race, religion and belief, ability, gender, language, background, or sexual identity and consider their welfare to be paramount.

The Prevent duty is part of the UK Government's counter-terrorism strategy, known as CONTEST. Prevent is a national safeguarding programme that supports people who are at risk of becoming involved with terrorism through radicalisation.

Our Prevent policy outlines our approach to fulfilling our safeguarding responsibilities under the Prevent duty, and it provides supporting guidance on how to identify and raise a concern about an individual at risk of radicalisation.

Read our Safeguarding Policy (PDF, 713 KB) and our Prevent Policy (PDF, 203 KB)