GPAtlasWhat it covers
What Prevent is, what it is not, and why a GP practice handles a radicalisation worry as a safeguarding concern rather than a statutory duty of its own. What makes a person easier to reach, and the behaviours Home Office guidance asks staff to notice at the counter, on the phone and in a consultation. How notice, check and share works here, when a concern is an emergency instead, what the police and a Channel panel do next, and which worries belong to a different route altogether. It also names the main terrorist ideologies, factually and without stereotyping, and explains the national threat level.
Who it is for
Everyone who works in the practice: reception and administration, care navigators, healthcare assistants, nurses, pharmacists, practice managers, cleaners, GPs and trainees. Anyone who might be first to notice a change in a patient.
By the end you will be able to
- Say what Prevent is, what it is not, and where a GP practice stands.
- Describe radicalisation as a process, with no single profile and no checklist.
- Recognise vulnerability factors and the behaviours the guidance asks staff to notice.
- Describe direct and online influence, the main ideologies and the national threat level.
- Follow notice, check and share, and know who to tell and when.
- Explain Channel and its consent rule, and why sharing information matters.
Modules
- Prevent in plain words
- What might catch your eye
- Taking it to the lead
- What happens next
- Ideologies and the threat level
Basic Prevent Awareness covers the framework's Levels 1 and 2. Staff who help assess, plan or act on safeguarding concerns, GPs among them, also need Level 3, Awareness of Prevent. A GP practice is not one of the bodies listed in Schedule 6, so it holds no statutory Prevent duty of its own and this course does not teach one. Your practice safeguarding policy sets the local names and routes.
Content mapped to the learning outcomes of the Core Skills Training Framework (England) v1.1: Preventing Radicalisation, Basic Prevent Awareness. Law named: Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, section 26 and Schedule 6.
Sources
- Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, section 26: general duty on specified authorities
- Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, Schedule 6: specified authorities (the health bodies are NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts and the Welsh health bodies; no GP practice or primary care body appears)
- Prevent duty guidance: England and Wales, in force 31 December 2023, last updated 6 March 2024 (paragraphs 22 to 49 and 211 to 245 read in the accessible version)
- Notice, check, share (Home Office, published 28 August 2026)
- Key principles of Prevent (Home Office, published 23 February 2026)
- Prevent duty: guidance for healthcare professionals (Department of Health and Social Care, updated 3 October 2024)
- NHS Prevent training and competencies framework (Department of Health and Social Care, updated 10 July 2025)
- Prevent duty: core standards for healthcare commissioners and providers (Department of Health and Social Care, updated 3 October 2024)
- Channel duty guidance: protecting people susceptible to radicalisation (Home Office, last updated 14 October 2025)
- Get help for radicalisation concerns (Home Office, last updated 28 August 2026)
- ACT Early Support Line, 0800 011 3764 (Counter Terrorism Policing, for the public)
- Core Skills Training Framework (England) v1.1 subject guide, Preventing Radicalisation (Skills for Health, read from the web archive copy of 12 January 2024)
- Prevent duty guidance: for England and Wales (accessible version, Home Office, in force 31 December 2023), paragraphs 22 to 27: Islamist terrorism the primary threat, Extreme Right-Wing ideology resurgent, Left-Wing, Anarchist and Single-Issue Terrorism a significantly smaller threat, mixed and unclear ideologies
- Prevent duty guidance glossary of terms (Home Office, updated 6 March 2024): 'Islamist should not be interpreted as a reference to individuals who follow the religion of Islam'; definitions of ERWT, LASIT and terrorism
- Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent programme, April 2024 to March 2025 (Home Office official statistics, 6 November 2025), section 4: type of concern
- Terrorism threat levels (MI5, archived copy of 29 August 2026): the five levels and their meanings, set by JTAC; national level SEVERE from 30 April 2026; Northern Ireland-related terrorism in Northern Ireland assessed separately; changes do not in themselves require a specific public response; Anti-Terrorist Hotline 0800 789 321
- UK National Terrorism Threat Level Raised To SEVERE (MI5 news, 1 May 2026, archived copy): rising Islamist and Extreme Right-Wing threat
- Terrorism, GOV.UK Prepare (read 18 October 2026): the current UK threat level is SEVERE; report suspicious activity to the Anti-Terrorism Hotline, 0800 789 321, or 999 in an emergency
- Prevent programme factsheet 2026 (Home Office news team, 6 August 2026): the National Threat Level is SEVERE; Prevent deals with all forms of terrorism, and many referrals have no ideology
GPAtlas is not accredited, verified or endorsed by Skills for Health or NHS England. Acceptance of this training is at the discretion of your employer, who remains responsible for confirming it meets local requirements. Your employer may require more frequent refreshers than the guidance period; the practice's own policy applies. Some pictures and films in our courses, and the film narration, are made with AI tools. We check every one for accuracy before we publish it.