Prevent Duty self-assessment tool for school staff launched

A free self-assessment quiz for teachers on the government's Prevent Duty has been launched by edtech charity LGfL–The National Grid for Learning.

The Prevent Quiz for Staff is a multiple choice assessment that consists of 25 questions based around the Home Office’s recently updated Prevent duty guidance (2023) and the Department for Education’s (DfE) Part 1 Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023), designed to ensure that individual staff have understood all the mandatory safeguarding information.

The quick quiz covers all aspects of the guidance including radicalisation, British values, and responding to concerns. Once completed, the staff receive their results via email, with corrections to any questions answered incorrectly, and feedback on areas to revisit in the guidance. The assessment results allows Designated Safeguarding Leads to identify any gaps in training, and areas for further development.

Mubina Asaria, Online Safeguarding Consultant, LGfL-The National Grid for Learning, explained: "At LGfL we always aim to be proactive and responsive to the needs of schools and staff. During DSL training sessions, it became apparent that schools would find it useful to be able to log and evidence Prevent training for Ofsted inspections, so we developed the Prevent Quiz for Staff. DSLs can now keep a record of staff understanding and collate knowledge gaps to shape cpd - the quiz is already proving a real hit with schools, it’s a simple and quick way of keeping records and providing data."

The twenty five questions are posed in the form of scenarios and statements, enabling participants to decide on the best response or responses to the situation, following their training on the Prevent duty guidance.