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<p>The Department for Education set up a dedicated unit, the Due Diligence and Counter
Extremism Group, now a director-led group, to lead its contribution to the Prevent
strategy, in particular by working to reduce the risk of unsuitable individuals and
organisations from gaining influence over schools and strengthening regulatory frameworks.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has carried out due diligence checks to establish
the suitability of individuals and organisations seeking to become involved in schools
and in other activity involving children and young people. Work on strengthening regulatory
frameworks includes, but is not limited to, amending the standards applying to institutions,
teachers and governors to require them to conduct themselves in a way which is compatible
with fundamental British values and enabling the Secretary of State and others to
take action where they fail to do so. Ofsted has strengthened the school inspections
handbook so that inspectors take account of how well schools promote fundamental British
values, and protect pupils from the risks of extremism and radicalisation, when judging
their effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A number of local Prevent projects,
funded by the Home Office, engage schools and supplementary schools and train teachers
in priority areas. The Home Office has established a monitoring framework to evaluate
the local delivery of Prevent project funding to local authorities. The process for
allocating funds requires projects to be evidence-based with clear steps to evaluate
activity. The Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) collates the evidence
from projects it funds in order to evaluate consistently across similar projects.</p><p>
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