Issue - meetings

Appendix 2 to the report is in the private section of the agenda at Item 15.

The Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health Integration presented the Barking and Dagenham Prevent Strategy and Delivery Plan for 2017-2019, which had been developed by a multi-agency steering group and overseen by the Borough’s Community Safety Partnership.

The Cabinet Member advised that the documents reflected the Council’s legal duties to prevent extremism and extremist violence of every type and reflected the following main priorities:

·  To work in partnership to understand the risk of radicalisation in Barking and Dagenham;

·  To work with partners and residents to identify and address potential vulnerabilities related to extremism or radicalisation;

·  To put in place mechanisms which prevent individuals from being drawn into terrorism and ensure that they are given appropriate advice and support;

·  To deliver a programme to limit and disrupt the activities of extremist individuals who seek to spread or incite violence for a political, ideological, racial or religious cause.

The Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree the Prevent Strategy and Delivery Plan 2017/2019 attached at Appendix 1 to the report; and

(ii)  Delegate authority to the Strategic Director of Service Development and Integration, in consultation with the Community Safety Partnership and the Cabinet Member for Equalities and Cohesion, to review the Strategy and Delivery Plan considering new levels of risk in the Borough and make appropriate changes in response.