SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

To fully assess your capacity and capability to manage the risk of violent
extremism on your campus and to access the available £10,000 funding,
please complete the Self Assessment Questionnaire and funding activity
form in as much detail as possible. The boxes within the template will
expand to allow the author to provide as full an answer as necessary.  

Self Assessment Questionnaire to be completed by: 5thFebruary 2010

Self Assessment Questionnaire to be returned to:

BIS
Abbey 2
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET

If you would like any help or guidance on completing the form, please
contact

Name of Institution Queen Mary, University of London

Name(s) of Institution Director of Student and Campus Services

representative completing
assessment

Name(s) of Police
representative consulted or Inspector
assisting in completing the (Prevent Team, Metropolitan Police)
assessment

Date assessment completed 4th February, 2010

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 1. Information Sharing and Partnership Working

1.a Please detail the police contacts that are in place with the institution.
(Detail all levels of contact; Strategic – Senior Officer, Special Branch , Counter-
Terrorism Unit, Neighbourhood policing, PCSO)

 Safer Neighbourhood Team

 Counter Terrorism Unit
 Prevent Team

1.b Are regular meetings held with the contacts identified in Question 1.a?
Please provide details; including the regularity of the meetings, who is present, what type
of information is shared and who the information is disseminated to.

 SNT (email contact following a crime on campus; contact averages once a week)
 CTU (following intelligence on terror-related activity; no regular meetings)
 Prevent (contact averages once a month)

1.c Is the institution aware of and participating in the Local Authority multi agency
Prevent arrangements? Please provide details.

The College is aware of Prevent but has not been invited to participate in multi-agency
discussions under the Prevent initiative.

1.d Has the institution identified Prevent roles for key staff members? (E.g. Head of
Security, Student Support Managers). Please provide details of these.

The College has discussed DIUS guidance. The College has a range of staff who are employed
to work with vulnerable students. See 2b.

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 2. Training and Awareness

2.a Have you done any awareness raising amongst your staff of the risks of violent
extremism and the Prevent strategy. If so, how has this been done and with which staff?

 A member of Security staff attended JTAC seminar on awareness of Prevent strategy, 11th
November 2009
 Staff have attended Prevent Conferences in the past
 DIUS guidance has been discussed within the College e.g. at its Student Support Committee

2.b Please detail the pastoral, chaplaincy and student welfare services that are available
to support vulnerable students. Please explain whether additional training and support is
required by these particular members of staff.
Please provide details of the processes that the institution has to support vulnerable
individuals (i.e. how the institution supports students who may have issues with
alcoholism, bereavement, drug addiction, racism, bullying, harassment or vulnerabililty to
recruitment by extremist groups)

The College has a wide range of such support. Each student has a personal tutor in their
academic department. Each department has a Senior Tutor who is the reference point for
personal tutors. Many departments also employ student support officers.

Personal tutors and senior tutors have additional support for their roles from a range of centrally-
provided support services. The Students’ Union employs welfare staff to support students.
Central support services include :

 Residential Support and Pastoral Care including residential stewards (who are students).
This service supports the 2,500 QM students who live in its halls of residence ;
 Advice and Counselling Service, employs professionally-qualified counsellors, welfare
advisers and with access to psychiatric support. Students can access 1 :1 or group support
through this service;
 Disability and Dyslexia Service including a full-time Mental Health Coordinator ;
 Chaplaincy Service – not part of the College, funded by the Diocese, but located in a building
which is a part of our Mile End campus. The Service provides a wide range of support and
pays particular attention to International students
 Security Service

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 3. Capability and Resilience

3.a Who within the institution was aware of the guidance issued by the former DIUS in
January 2008 (http://dius.gov.uk/~/media/ec_group/22-07-HE ). In what ways have you
implemented any of the advice in this guidance document ?

A range of staff at all levels and including the Students’ Union. The advice contained in the
document is noted as part of the College’s approach to supporting vulnerable students in general.

3.b Please provide details of engagement activities conducted by the institution involving
key student groups such as the NUS, student societies based on faith, language, race etc –
which might contribute to promoting community cohesion and fostering shared values. How
effective have these been?

 The Students’ Union facilitates a wide range of sports clubs and societies that bring students
together
 The College has a Multi-Faith Centre and a User Forum regularly brings together student
representatives of different faiths to talk about the operation of the Centre
 The Students’ Union has a very successful volunteering programme that puts students in touch
with each other and with local community organisations

3.c If staff identify a vulnerable individual, what options are available to them to support this
individual or for referral to another agency for appropriate support?
Are staff fully briefed on the referral options available?

 Options available: see 2b

 The support available to staff who might encounter a vulnerable student are well-publicised in a
variety of ways - hard copy, website, procedures etc

3.d Please provide details of the opportunities for open debate and discussion on some of
the issues surrounding extremism and violent extremism within your institution.

The College makes its facilities available for students to meet and debate issues. This will include
external speakers.

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 4. Funding Proposal

Please set out below the details of what activities you would spend your allocated
£10,000 on during 2010. Please try and give as much detail as possible including
timescales and estimated costs of each activity.

The sorts of things you may wish to use the funding for may include (but not limited to)
the following:

- A conference or series of seminars

- Staff awareness training
- The creation of a resource pack to help staff and students understand risk and
vulnerability
- The use of theatre
- Creation of public debate
- Use of Act Now table top exercise
- Creation of a magazine
- Creation of a Prevent steering group

The funding can be used for any activities which have Prevent outcomes

Proposed Estimated
Proposed Activity Outcomes
timings costs

The College has completed the Self-Assessment Questionnaire in the spirit of sharing information
and working in partnership in this important area. However, the College does not wish to be
considered for the funding being offered.

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