Radicalisation Awareness Online Session

Our Radicalisation Awareness Webinar will be presented to you by The National Safeguarding Training Network Team, on behalf of the Lancashire Prevent Team.

Hey there! Curious about what radicalisation really means and how to spot it? Our online webinar is the perfect space to learn, chat, and get informed in a relaxed setting. Whether you're just curious or looking to help others, this event is for you!

These sessions will support teachers, youth workers, community practitioners, and safeguarding professionals to better understand extremist narratives and online recruitment tactics. These workshops will help professionals build their understanding of how certain groups use harmful narratives to distort the teachings of Islam or promote Extreme Right-Wing ideologies to influence young people online and offline. The training will build confidence in identifying risks, challenging misinformation, and effectively supporting young people who may be susceptible.

Aims:

• To enhance professionals’ confidence in supporting young people susceptible to radicalisation and online exploitation.

• To increase practitioner knowledge of current extremist narratives, recruitment tactics, and risk factors across both Islamist and Extreme Right-Wing ideologies.

• To build professional capacity to distinguish free speech from extremist content, reducing uncertainty when making referrals.

• Improve knowledge to support and challenge those at risk of hateful extremism.

• Learn ways to promote alternative dialogue. Have open frank discussions in a safe space.

Objectives:

• Equip professionals to recognise early warning signs of radicalisation, including behavioural shifts, online activity patterns, and ideological language.

• Improve understanding of how extremist groups exploit grievances, including identity struggles, discrimination, or political frustration.

• Increase confidence in identifying misinformation, conspiracy theories, and distorted online narratives.

• Strengthen practitioners’ ability to have difficult conversations with young people, challenge harmful views, and promote resilience.

• Ensure professionals feel confident making Prevent referrals, safeguarding reports, or signposting to appropriate support.

• Provide practical tools to counter extremist narratives, encourage community cohesion, and address Islamophobia and antisemitism safely and accurately.