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Danielle Butcher has become more aware of risky behaviour after going on an early years- specific Prevent course. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Terrorist attacks in Manchester and London have brought the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy Prevent into the spotlight. Since July 2015, all childcare providers are legally conferred to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. Ofsted checks providers meet this requirement at inspection.

Sunshine Corner Nursery in Aylesham, run by the Pre-school Learning Alliance, ensures its staff know how to identify adults and children at risk of radicalisation, and take action, by training them using an online course offered by EduCare: The Prevent Duty in an Early Years Environment.

Flexible worker Danielle Butcher, who is currently completing a Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification, says the training has made her more vigilant. She completed the Level 2 course in May. It required she study a pack of policies, including what is expected from early years leaders, definitions of extremism and radicalisation, who may be at risk, and how to support them. Finally students must answer an online questionnaire with a 70 per cent pass mark.

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