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Improved school Prevent training

Southport Inquiry · The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 · Issued 13 April 2026 · Addressed to: Department for Education

Government responseDepartment for Education: Accepted (Jul 2026)

DeliveryNo statement from Department for Education found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

The Department for Education should ensure that (i) its own policy guidance for teachers and schools (outside the Statutory Guidance for which the Home Office is responsible) is strengthened; and (ii) schools put in place improved Prevent training (including refresher training). This must ensure that staff are not just aware of when to make a Prevent referral but are also aware of (i) what happens once a Prevent referral is made; and (ii) the importance of ongoing dialogue, feedback and assessment between the referrer and the Prevent officer.

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 Department for Education accepted the recommendation and expected to complete implementation by mid-2026 (Home Office response, Jul 2026). The department planned to make substantial updates to guidance on safeguarding learners vulnerable to radicalisation, update designated safeguarding lead Prevent training by September, and introduce a new Prevent training package for those working with SEND learners (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

●Department for Education · 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 Department for Education (DfE) is the lead department and expects to complete the implementation of this recommendation by mid-2026. Progress and next steps:
- DfE will make substantial updates to the guidance Prevent Duty: safeguarding learners vulnerable to radicalisation. It will also consider whether amends are needed on guidance around Prevent in future iterations of Keeping Children Safe in Education.
- DfE will update designated safeguarding lead Prevent training by September.
- DfE will introduce a new Prevent training package for those leading or working with SEND learners.

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

Delivery

No statement on delivery from Department for Education has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

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