The Prevent programme

1. Objectives

SFSC aims to help parents:

• gain a better understanding of child development
• use positive discipline techniques, promote children’s social skills and self-discipline
• achieve positive change in family relationships
• explore and develop strategies to deal with factors that can lead to poor outcomes for children.

The additional elements of the programme are:

• to support parents with understanding the important role they have in preventing vulnerable young people from getting involved in or supporting terrorism
• to improve the parenting skills of parents from vulnerable communities
• to encourage better relationships between parents and children so that parents can fill the space where extremists, gang leaders and other negative influences try to operate
• to give parents the confidence and knowledge to ensure that their children live within an environment that enables them to balance the demands of their faith alongside their need to integrate and embrace British society, values and opportunities
• to improve awareness of other complementary issues that contribute to an individual’s overall vulnerability to extremism such as the conflict in Syria, criminality, gangs, anti-social behaviour, truancy and disruptive behaviour in schools
• to improve parents' understanding of mainstream support services and structures available to help them.

2. Course details

The programme is for parents with children aged 10 to 25 years and who have been referred by safeguarding practitioners or community partners.

It will run for 13 to 14 weeks with a 3-hour session each week.

Groups will be led by experienced facilitators to encourage participants to share and discuss their particular concerns and issues. Sessions can be delivered in the language best suited to the needs of the participants.

Childcare is available for course participants if required and refreshments will be provided.

There will be courses running across the 3 boroughs from September 2015; contact the Programme Manager for more information.

3. Contact details

For referrals, please contact:   

• Kiran Malik (Westminster) on 020 7641 5071 or kmalik@westminster.gov.uk
• Aysha Esakji (LBHF and RBKC) on 020 8753 2458 or aysha.esakji@lbhf.gov.uk
• Abdullahi Ali (Programme Deliverer - Baraka Youth Association) on 07949 727 322

The parenting project has been commissioned with funding from the Home Office. For any queries regarding this, please contact:

Parenting project managers

• Kiran Malik (Westminster) on 020 7641 5071 or kmalik@westminster.gov.uk
• Aysha Esakji (LBHF and RBKC) on 020 8753 2458 or aysha.esakji@lbhf.gov.uk

Prevent programme leads

• Mark Chalmers (Westminster) on 020 7641 6032 or mchalmers@westminster.gov.uk     
• Pinakin Patel (LBHF and RBKC) on 020 8753 5727 or pinakin.patel@lbhf.gov.uk