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<p>Universities are required to balance their freedom of speech duty alongside other
legal responsibilities, such as laws against different types of speech that can incite
hatred. This includes the statutory Prevent duty. The government has published statutory
guidance on Prevent (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guidance"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guidance</a>)
explaining that universities are required to consider the impact and mitigations needed
to host a particular speaker and whether their views constitute extremist views and
risk drawing people into terrorism.</p><p> </p><p>The sector takes these issues seriously
and has produced a variety of helpful guidance for hosting speakers. This includes
the Universities UK guidance: <em>Freedom of speech on campus </em>(<a href="http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2011/freedom-of-speech-on-campus.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2011/freedom-of-speech-on-campus.pdf</a>)
and<em> External speakers in higher education institutions </em>(<a href="http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2013/external-speakers-in-higher-education-institutions.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2013/external-speakers-in-higher-education-institutions.pdf</a>)<em>.</em></p><p>
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