With cases emerging of Prevent referrals being made by schools for legitimate protest or flippant remarks, Peter Radford looks at how we can use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to guide our decision-making
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In an article last month, I highlighted emerging and disturbing evidence that prejudice and racism have infected how the Prevent Duty is being implemented.

A report from Amnesty International has raised a number of disturbing cases, not least the Muslim student who was referred after joking during a fire drill that he hoped his school might burn down. You can still read my article here.

There are clearly things about how Prevent is being implemented that need to be addressed at governmental level. However, in the meantime, Prevent remains a “duty” for schools. How then might school leaders and teachers act responsibly in fulfilling their safeguarding duty in relation to Prevent, while doing what they can to ensure racist practices do not become embedded?

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