Decision details

Bristol City Council has made a successful bid for Home Office Prevent priority funding and has been awarded a grant of £126,231 for a period from April 2022 – March 2023. This grant will allow for the creation of two new posts – a Prevent Coordinator and a Prevent Education Officer. The funds also permit the Council to provide greater strategic oversight and an improved alignment with national Prevent objectives and practice. There is also funding for community engagement activity throughout this period. The provision with lead to an improved level of compliance with the Council’s statutory duty to Prevent as outlined above and will also in turn, serve to improve our safeguarding of vulnerable individuals through our Channel programme, our partnerships working and safety within our communities.

To accept the prevent Priority funds from the Home Office. Bristol City Council will use the funds to appoint two specialist Prevent posts, to provide strategic oversight and implement community engagement activities over a twelve-month period. The additional posts and community engagement funds will enable Bristol City Council to fulfil its statutory Prevent Duty under the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 which requires all specified authorities to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.

To decline the Home Office grant and/or refuse permission to spend. The decision to decline the grant was not taken forward as a preferred option for as to do so would be to refuse the opportunity to undertake the opportunity to bring greater resource and expertise into the City that in turn will serve to safeguard vulnerable individuals and counter terrorism.