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Prevent referral training for organisations

Southport Inquiry · The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 · Issued 13 April 2026 · Addressed to: Home Office

Government responseHome Office: Accepted (Jul 2026)

DeliveryNo statement from Home Office found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

Building on the Key Principles of Prevent issued on 23 February 2026, the Home Office should ensure that accessible information and appropriate training materials should be made available to organisations which are likely to make Prevent referrals (particularly those subject to the Prevent Duty) to strengthen understanding that a fixed ideology is not required for a referral to be made or accepted. The development of a Prevent practitioner portal should be prioritised.

Southport Inquiry, The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 · 13 Apr 2026 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

In July 2026, HM Government stated that the Home Office expects to complete implementation of the recommendation by late 2026 (Home Office response, Jul 2026). The department reported that updates to guidance on the Key Principles of Prevent are being developed, and the Prevent Practitioner Portal is being tested before becoming fully operational in autumn 2026 (Home Office response, Jul 2026). The record holds no update since the government's response of July 2026 (Home Office response, Jul 2026).

Sources

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.

Report-level response context

The government's response to Phase 1 (CP 1623, 2 July 2026) agreed with all 67 recommendations in one sentence, and names only 39 of them individually. Where a recommendation is not named, the response shown is the passage the response gives for the group it belongs to (the recommendations for organisations outside central government, or the recommendations to policing bodies), which is not a response to that recommendation alone; the response does not list the members of any group. The 10 recommendations for Phase 2 of the Inquiry to consider show no response: the response introduces them (paragraph 20) but answers none of them. The government accepts the recommendations that are for central government to deliver. Where a recommendation is for an organisation outside central government, the government's agreement is not that organisation's acceptance.

Government response

●Home Office · Accepted · 2 Jul 2026

Words of: HM Government, Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry (CP 1623), presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, 2 July 2026

The Home Office is the lead department and expects to complete the implementation of this recommendation by late 2026. Progress and next steps:
- Updates to guidance on the Key Principles of Prevent are being developed.
- The Prevent Practitioner Portal is being tested before becoming fully operational in autumn 2026 and will include relevant guidance and supporting documents to build understanding and awareness and support organisation that are likely to make Prevent referrals.

Extract from: Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry

Delivery

No statement on delivery from Home Office has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

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