Cllr Henry, in her role as chair of the task group, thanked officers, schools and local community organisations for their involvement in the work of the task group in addition to the scrutiny officer for their support.  She highlighted that one of the group’s recommendations is to look at how other organisations working with children and young people in Merton have implemented the Prevent duty.  Following the speech by Amanda Spielman, HM Chief Inspector of Education at Ofsted, it was noted that there may be a need to ensure that unregistered schools are being effective in their use of Prevent.

RESOLVED: To accept the final report of the task group review of how schools are implementing the Prevent duty in Merton and to refer this to Cabinet on 19 February 2018.