Decision details

Permission to bid for and spend this Home Office grant will allow for the continuation of two specialist prevent posts to be employed by Bristol City Council from April 2024 to March 2025. This Prevent Team will continue to support the Council to deliver against the national prevent objectives and practices set out in the Prevent Duty.

Permission for Bristol City Council Safer Communities Team to bid for Home Office Prevent grant funding to the amount of £128,492 for the year 2024-2025. This bid covers salary costs associated with Prevent Specialist roles, namely a Prevent Coordinator and a Prevent Education Officer and some engagement funding. Delivery against this grant funding relates directly to the Prevent Duty as set out in Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015). Permission to spend this grant was also delegated to the Director of Public Health.

There are no other like for like funding opportunities available for this area of work. Therefore the decision not to bid and/or not to accept this grant funding was not taken forward as a preferred option. A decision to refuse this grant funding would negate the opportunity to bring in specialist prevent resource into the Council and the wider Partnership for this time period.