Prevent Strategy
The Designated Safeguarding Lead has received Prevent awareness training and the school has appropriate arrangements in place to prevent pupils being drawn into terrorism in line with the Prevent duty.
PREVENT DUTY GUIDANCE: England and Wales (2023)
Further Guidance: The Guidance above was updated in March 2024
SMSC and British Values
All maintained schools must meet the requirements set out in section 78 of the Education Act 2002 and promote the spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development of their pupils. Through ensuring pupils’ SMSC development, schools can also demonstrate they are actively promoting fundamental British values. (see our British Values page HERE)
Meeting requirements for collective worship, establishing a strong school ethos supported by effective relationships throughout the school, and providing relevant activities beyond the classroom are all ways of ensuring pupils’ SMSC development. As a Catholic school, the approach to prayer and liturgy, our RE curriculum, plus our attention to the Catholic life and mission of the school ensures strong development of our children with regards to their spiritual, moral, social and cultural outlook.
Pupils must be encouraged to regard people of all faiths, races and cultures with respect and tolerance.
It is expected that pupils should understand that while different people may hold different views about what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, all people living in England are subject to its law. The school’s ethos and teaching - which schools should make parents aware of - should
support the rule of English civil and criminal law and schools should not teach anything that undermines it. If schools teach about religious law, particular care should be taken to explore the relationship between state and religious law. Pupils should be made aware of the difference between the law of the land and religious law.
