Craig Whittaker – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Craig Whittaker on 2016-03-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that prison officers complete Prevent awareness training.

Andrew Selous

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has a range of Prevent awareness training and briefing packages available for staff.

Prevent awareness training forms part of the Prison Officer Entry Level training for new prison officers. By the end of this month, over 1800 prison officers will have completed this training in 2015-16.

In addition NOMS regularly reviews the extremism based training provision available to all staff in prisoner facing roles, adapting it to meet the need of the audience and the changing threat.

During 2015/2016 over 12,000 directly employed and non-directly employed staff attended such training and briefing events.