The Prevent Duty and Controversial Issues: creating a curriculum response through Citizenship

Responding through Citizenship

Download the Prevent and controversial issues guidance resources, which consist of:

• Full Guidance for teachers
• Summary Guidance for teachers
• Summary Guidance for Heads, Senior Leaders and Governors.

The guidance aims to help teachers working in primary and secondary education to:

• consider how to best meet the requirements of the Prevent Duty and be clear about the purpose and role of the Citizenship curriculum and the teacher in this context
• develop understanding of the Citizenship pedagogical tools available to help them address Prevent as a controversial issue
• feel more confident in planning teaching and learning such as to develop resilience and critical thinking and that is appropriate within the context of their school and their pupils’ diverse needs and backgrounds
• be informed about what to do if they find a pupil is at risk of being draw into terrorism or extremist behaviour.

To illustrate the principles set out in this guidance we are working with schools on The ACT Building Resilience Project, which involves teachers in schools developing innovative teaching strategies to build children’s criticality and resilience to extremism and being drawn into terrorism. Find out more about the project, see the teachers’ schemes of work, lesson plans and resources, and hear them talk about their work.

If you are looking for training in Prevent, ‘British Values’, SMSC and Citizenship, please contact ACT for more information.

These publications have been written and developed by the Expert Subject Advisory Group for Citizenship and published by the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT).