SGPOL18 Prevent Policy by Provide Community

Prevent Policy

Version: V5

Ratified By: Quality & Safety Committee

Date ratified: 19/04/2021

Job Title of Author:

Safeguarding Adults and Learning Disabilities Lead

Reviewed by Sub Group or Expert Group: Strategic Safeguarding Group

Equality Impact Assessed by:

1. Introduction

The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a duty on specified authorities including Health, in the exercise of their functions, to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. The term “due regard” means that the authorities should place an appropriate amount of weight on the need to prevent people being drawn into terrorism when they consider all the other factors relevant to how they carry out their usual functions. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guidance/revised-preventduty-guidance-for-england-and-wales

CONTEST (2018) is the overall UK Counter-Terrorism strategy and aims to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence.

Terrorist groups often draw on ideology developed by extremist organisations. Some people who join terrorist groups have previously been members of extremist organisations and have been radicalised by them. The Government has defined extremism in the Prevent strategy as: “vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. We also include in our definition of extremism calls for the death of members of our armed forces”.

The white supremacist ideology of extreme right-wing groups has also provided both the inspiration and justification for people who have committed extreme right-wing terrorist acts.

CONTEST’s risk reduction model has four strands: Prevent, Pursue, Protect and Prepare. The Prevent Statutory Duty applies to all organisations including Health and is basically about safeguarding vulnerable people from being radicalised and reporting any concerns to the Police Prevent Lead

The Prevent strategy deals with all forms of terrorism and with non-violent extremism, which can create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism and can popularise views which terrorists then exploit. It also made clear that preventing people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism requires challenge to extremist ideas where they are used to legitimise terrorism and are shared by terrorist groups. The strategy also means intervening to stop people moving from extremist (albeit legal) groups into terrorist-related activity.

The main objectives of Prevent are to:

• Tackle the causes of radicalisation and respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism.

• Safeguard and support those most at risk of radicalisation through early intervention, identifying them and offering support.

• Enable those who have already engaged in terrorism to disengage and rehabilitate. (Channel Duty Guidance, 2015)

This Policy sets out how Provide will approach the PREVENT agenda to contribute to the Government’s Policy to prevent and reduce the risk to vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation and offer support to individuals to make informed decisions without coercion

The PREVENT Strategy focuses its work on preventing radicalisation by challenging ideology that supports terrorism, protecting vulnerable individuals and supporting sectors and institutions where there is a link to radicalisation.

Prevent is about recognising when Vulnerable people are being exploited for terroristrelated activities and within Health care organisations is most appropriately managed within existing Safeguarding structures. The key challenge for the health sector is to ensure that, where there are signs that someone has been or is being drawn into terrorism, healthcare workers can interpret those signs correctly, are aware of the support that is available and are confident in referring the person for further support. Preventing someone from becoming a terrorist or from supporting terrorism is no different from safeguarding vulnerable individuals from other forms of exploitation. (DOH, 2011)

Channel is a key element of the Prevent strategy. It is a multi-agency approach to protect people at risk from radicalisation. Channel uses existing collaboration between local authorities, statutory partners (such as the education and health sectors, social services, children’s and youth services and offender management services), the police and the local community to:

• Identify individuals at risk of being drawn into terrorism;

• Assess the nature and extent of that risk;

• Develop the most appropriate support plan for the individuals concerned.

Radicalisation is a process by which an individual or group adopts increasingly extreme political, social or religious ideals and aspirations that reject or undermine the status quo or undermine contemporary ideas and expressions of freedom of choice. The Prevent strategy is focused on providing support and redirection to individuals at risk of or in the process of being groomed/radicalised into any terrorist activity before any crime is committed. Radicalisation is comparable to other forms of exploitation: it is a safeguarding issue that all staff working in the health sector must be aware of. (SET 2019).

2. Key Functions of the Policy

This Policy sets out how staff will be supported to develop an understanding of the Prevent Strategy and how they can utilise their existing knowledge and skills to recognise that someone may have been or is being radicalised

This Policy sets out where staff can seek advice from and how to escalate their concerns within Provide. Where concerns need to be raised with external agencies, this Policy describes how referrals will be managed within the existing multi agency safeguarding processes.

This Policy sets out how PREVENT related referrals or requests for information from external agencies will be managed by Provide. It will also support staff in ensuring that any information sharing is appropriate for the purpose of preventing a vulnerable individual from being radicalised.

3. Training and Recognition

The Prevent Training and Competencies Framework (NHS England, 2017) has been developed in order to meet the Prevent Duty (2015) and to encourage a consistent approach to training and competency development in respect of Prevent.

The Prevent strategy is focused on providing support and re-direction to individuals at risk of, or in the process of being groomed /radicalised into terrorist activity before any crime is committed. Radicalisation is comparable to other forms of exploitation; it is a safeguarding issue that staff working in the health sector must be aware of.

Radicalisation is a process by which an individual or group adopts increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that reject or undermine the status quo or undermine contemporary ideas and expressions of freedom of choice

The Revised Prevent Duty 2019 requires that health staff understand the risk of radicalisation and how to seek appropriate advice and support. Healthcare staff will meet, and treat people who may be vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism. The health sector needs to ensure that healthcare workers are able to identify early signs of an individual being drawn into radicalisation. Staff must be able to recognise key signs of radicalisation and be confident in referring individuals to the Provide safeguarding lead or the Police thus enabling them to receive the support and intervention they require.

It is important that frontline staff and their managers in particular, understand the PREVENT Agenda and their role within it. Provide staff need to be able to recognise their existing expertise, knowledge, skills, experience and professional judgement, and to transfer and use them to recognise and respond to vulnerable individuals who may be being radicalised/groomed into terrorist activity

Basic Prevent Awareness Training

This should be delivered to all staff identified in both Adult (RCN 2018) and Children’s (RCN, 2019) intercollegiate documents as requiring Levels 1 & 2 safeguarding training. This is usually delivered within Provide by the Prevent Lead or other members of the Safeguarding team to all new employees as part of Corporate Induction. It is also included in the Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children Level 2 eLearning packages.

Workshop Raising Awareness of Prevent (WRAP)

WRAP training is delivered to all staff identified in both the Adult (RCN 2018) and Children’s (RCN, 2019) intercollegiate documents as requiring Level 3 Safeguarding Training and is incorporated into both Training packages delivered by the Prevent Lead and other members of the Safeguarding Team.

This training is required to be updated every three years. In addition, an annual written update should be circulated to all staff.

Organisational Prevent Leads

• Are also required to attend regional Prevent Forums at least twice per year.

• Evidence Partnership working with the area Channel co-ordinator

• Complete Prevent related training.

Board Level

All board members including non-executive members must have a level of knowledge equivalent to all staff working within the healthcare setting. (Intercollegiate documents, level 1) as well as additional knowledge-based competencies by virtue of their board membership. They must provide strategic leadership, promote a culture of supporting good practice with regard to child protection/safeguarding within their organisations and promote a culture of learning and professional curiosity, and collaborative working with other agencies. All board members should have access to safeguarding advice and expertise from their named professionals within the Safeguarding Team.

The Prevent training is currently under review by the Home Office and this policy will be updated in line with any changes to the requirements once published.

Managing Concerns in Relation to Employees

Although there have only been a few instances of healthcare staff radicalising others or being drawn into extremist acts, it is still a risk that Provide needs to be aware of and have processes within which to manage any concerns.

Where a Provide employee expresses views, brings material into the organisation, uses or directs patients to extremist websites or acts in other ways to promote terrorism Provide will look to use non-safeguarding processes in order to address the concerns.

Where a staff member has a concern about a colleague, this should be raised with their manager. The line manager will discuss the concerns with Provide Human Resources. Where appropriate, the Lead Professional for Safeguarding Adults and relevant Service Manager will liaise with the Police PREVENT Lead and the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service. The HR Advisor will lead on advising the Line Manager in relation to the disciplinary process if required

4. Channel and how to refer

Channel Panels oversee and co-ordinate Prevent interventions in Essex, Southend and Thurrock. The panel has a statutory basis: under the terms of the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015, local authorities must:

• Ensure a multi-agency panel exists and chair the panel

• Use the panel to develop a support plan for accepted cases and signpost to other support where cases are not accepted

• Ensure consent is sought prior to support being provided

• Co-operate with other panel partners

Membership: The Channel Panel meets on a monthly basis in Essex and where needed in Thurrock and Southend. The panel is chaired by the Local Authority Prevent Lead and permanent members will include Social Care (Adult and Children), and Essex Police Prevent team. Other agencies will be invited depending on need.

The role of the multi-agency panel is to develop an appropriate support package to safeguard those at risk of being drawn into terrorism based on an assessment of their vulnerability. The panel is responsible for managing the safeguarding risk which is in line with other multi-agency panels where risk is managed, such Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).

Channel is not a process for gathering intelligence. It is a process for providing support to people at risk. In common with other such programmes, it does require the sharing of personal information to ensure that the full range of an individual’s vulnerabilities are identified and addressed. Information sharing must be assessed on a case by case basis and is governed by legislation.

It is not the purpose of Channel to provide an alternative to the criminal justice system for those who have been engaged in illegal activity. Channel is about early intervention to protect and divert people away from the risk they may face before illegality relating to terrorism occurs. Therefore, in line with other safeguarding processes, being referred to Channel will not lead to an individual receiving a criminal record as a consequence of the referral, nor as a result of any support they may receive through Channel. (SET, 2019)

Channel assesses vulnerability using a consistently applied vulnerability assessment framework built around three dimensions:

• Engagement with a group, cause or ideology;

• Intent to cause harm;

• Capability to cause harm.

• These dimensions are assessed by considering contributory factors to form a rounded view of the vulnerability and support needs of the individual and undertaking regular vulnerability assessments to monitor progress.

Consent

People who are vulnerable to violent extremism or radicalisation are more likely to be reached by supportive services if issues of consent are handled with sensitivity and an informed understanding of the issues. For children, this will usually involve talking to the child/young person and their family (unless the family is implicated in potential extremism) and to other professionals working with the child/young person. Any referrals should be made with the young person/family’s awareness unless to do so would place the child/young person at risk of harm.

For Adults (over age 18 years) practitioners should seek the consent of the person who may be at risk of extremism or radicalisation before taking action or sharing information. In some cases, where a person refuses to consent, information can still be lawfully shared if it is in the public’s best interest to do so. This may also include protecting someone from serious harm or preventing crime and disorder.

Should any member of staff have a concern relating to an individual’s behaviour which indicates that they may be being drawn into terrorist related activity, they will need to take into consideration how reliable or significant the indicators are. All staff must raise their concerns and seek advice on how best to address them.

When there are grounds to doubt the capacity of those aged 16 and over steps need to be taken to provide support to enable an informed decision to be made whether to consent to work with the Channel Panel. A best interest decision may need to be considered if they are assessed under the Mental Capacity Act as lacking capacity to consent.

As a voluntary programme, no Social Care work can take place without the agreement and engagement of the adult.

Referral Process

See Flow chart in Appendix 1

Any agency or member of the public can make a referral to Channel. Provide staff becoming aware of a person vulnerable to radicalisation should contact the Provide Adult Safeguarding Lead who will offer support in making the decision as to whether a referral to Channel Panel is needed and if this is the appropriate route.

Referrals should be made without delay where there are concerns about significant harm or directly to the Police on 999 if there is an imminent risk of harm from terrorist activity.

A referral form, which is also known as person vulnerable to radicalisation (VTR), can found in Communications and letters on SystmOne and is attached to this policy in Appendix 2. Contact the safeguarding team if unable to access.

Once completed, this should be returned securely to: Prevent@essex.pnn.police.uk (This is secure if sent from an nhs.net email account). A copy of the completed referral form should be saved in the patient electronic record and emailed to the safeguarding team

Any referral received by Channel will initially be screened. All cases that progress through the Channel process will be subject to a thorough assessment of vulnerabilities in a multi-agency safeguarding environment. The preliminary assessment is coordinated and should be informed by multi-agency information gathering and can include consideration of an initial vulnerability assessment. The referrer and any identified relevant agency working with the individual is required to attend the Channel Panel meeting if the case is heard.

If there are concerns that the person is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm, a referral to Children’s or Adult Social Care must be made, this will be discussed and determined who will raise this before the case exits the process. If there are no concerns or low risk but the person requires additional support, a referral may be made for Common Assessment Framework and Early Help.

Information Sharing

All requests for information sharing from Channel come through via secure email to the Safeguarding Team from the Channel co-ordinator as a multiagency Channel Collection Document and contains the original referral information. The Safeguarding administrator will register the subject to the Safeguarding Unit on System0ne, record the information on the Safeguarding Adult Spreadsheet and forward the request to the Prevent Lead for actioning.

The Prevent Lead will then check the record for any involvement with Provide Services and update the Channel Collection Document. If the subject is currently open to any Provide Service the clinician will be informed and the current concerns discussed prior to completion of the Channel Collection Document. The completed document is returned to the ESAB Channel co-ordinator, a copy is saved to the safeguarding shared drive Prevent folder and the spreadsheet updated. A note is made in the subjects record and if not known to Provide then the referral is closed.

Any worker who believes a crime is being committed, or planned, or is aware of any terrorist activity, should contact Essex Police without delay.

5. Internal and External Reporting

Anonymised information regarding PREVENT related incidents, PREVENT Training Data and PREVENT related infrastructure changes/challenges, are included in the Adult Safeguarding Lead’s Quarterly report to the Strategic Safeguarding Group which is a subgroup of the Quality and Safety Committee. Serious concerns will be directly communicated to the Chief Operations Officer.

All NHS Trusts are required to submit a quarterly report on Prevent data to the Home Office. Provider organisations are required to submit the same data to the CCG. Most of this data is collected from the Fitness to Practice report and sent to Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Adults.

Any concerns about persons vulnerable to radicalisation should be recorded in the patient electronic records

6. References

Channel Duty Guidance: Protecting people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism 2015

Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, HM Government

Counter-Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST) 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-terrorism-strategy-contest-2018

DOH 2011 Building Partnerships, Staying Safe: The health Sector contribution to HM Government’s Prevent Strategy: guidance for healthcare organisations.

NHS England 2017, Prevent Training and Competencies framework https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/prevent-training-competenciesframework-v3.pdf

RCN 2018, Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Healthcare Staff 1st Edition Intercollegiate Document

RCN 2019, Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competencies for Healthcare Staff 4th Edition Intercollegiate Document

Revised Prevent Duty 2019, Statutory Guidance for England and Wales. Home Office

SET 2019 “Prevent Policy and Guidance”, version 7 Southend, Essex and Thurrock Adult and Children’s Safeguarding Board.

Appendix 1: Referral Flowchart (SET 2019)

Appendix 2: Person Vulnerable to Radicalisation (VTR) Referral

Form V2

RESTRICTED WHEN COMPLETE

This form is to help you refer concerns into the Prevent/Channel team, regarding an individual who may be vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism. Below are questions which may assist in helping you quantify and structure your concerns in order to better record them on the form. They are intended as a guide to help communicate your professional judgement about what has led you to make this referral.

GUIDANCE NOTES FOR COMPLETING THIS FORM

The list is not exhaustive and other factors may be present but they are intended as a guide

Reason for Referral

• Has some context been obtained from the subject e.g. What do they mean by their comment? Do they understand what they are saying? Has their response been noted?

• Has there been any similar incidents / comments made in the past?

• Was it aimed at someone in particular?

• What is the concern?

• Does a separate Safeguarding referral need to be considered?

Faith / Ideology

• Are they new to a particular faith / faith strand?

• Do they seem to have naïve or narrow religious or political views?

• Have there been sudden changes in their observance, behaviour, interaction or attendance at their place of worship / organised meeting?

• Have there been specific examples or is there an undertone of “ Them and Us “ language or violent rhetoric being used or behaviour occurring?

• Is there evidence of increasing association with a closed tight knit group of individuals / known recruiters / extremists / restricted events?

• Are there particular grievances either personal or global that appear to be unresolved / festering?

• Has there been an increase in unusual travel abroad without satisfactory explanation?

Personal / Emotional / Social issues

• Is there conflict with their families regarding religious beliefs / lifestyle choices?

• Is there evidence of cultural anxiety and / or isolation linked to insularity / lack of integration?

• Is there evidence of increasing isolation from family, friends or groups towards a smaller group of individuals or a known location?

• Is there history in petty criminality and / or unusual hedonistic behaviour (alcohol/drug use, casual sexual relationships, and addictive behaviours)?

• Have they got / had extremist propaganda materials ( DVD’s, CD’s, leaflets etc.) in their possession?

• Do they associate with negative / criminal peers or known groups of concern?

• Are there concerns regarding their emotional stability and or mental health?

• Is there evidence of participation in survivalist / combat simulation activities, e.g. paint balling?

Risk / Protective Factors

• What are the specific factors which are contributing towards making the individual more vulnerable to radicalisation? E.g; mental health, language barriers, cultural anxiety, impressionability, criminality, specific grievance, transitional period in life etc.

• Is there any evidence of others targeting or exploiting these vulnerabilities or risks?What factors are already in place or could be developed to firm up support for the individual or help them increase their resilience to negative influences? E.g. positive family ties, employment, mentor / agency input etc.

Do they use Social Media?

• Which platforms (apps) do they use i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat etc?

• Do you know their user names ?

Once completed, email to: Prevent@essex.pnn.police.uk

This form is to help you refer concerns into the Prevent/Channel team, regarding an individual who may be vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism. Please use the guidance to help you quantify and structure your concerns. Completed forms should be sent to: Prevent@essex.pnn.police.uk

This form DOES NOT replace existing safeguarding referral processes. It should only be used where concern being reported relates to an individual’s vulnerability to radicalisation and there is no immediate risk of harm.

Section 1: Person referring to complete (please expand boxes as required)

Subject’s full Name (include all known alias/maiden if relevant)

Date and place of birth

Full Address & contact number

Spouse/Partner/Parents’ names/D.O.B

Children/Siblings names/D.O.B

Reason for Referral

Any attachments included? If so, how many?

Background and risk issues - Page 1 offers guidance notes (include chronology if known)

Faith / Ideology

Personal / Emotional & Social Issues

Risk / Protective Factors

If the subject uses Social media, which one? What is their user name?

Please check boxes and provide any details of services known to the individual being referred:

Contact details:

Referrers full name, role, contact details, including phone number & date submitted. Date:

Section 2: For Safeguarding to complete (ONLY after assessed and requested by Prevent)

Safeguarding system checks

(please expand boxes as required)

Police inc. CIS, PNC, PND

Adult Services

Children’s Services

Education

Housing

General Health

Mental Health

Other (please state)

Completed by:

Date/time:

EQUALITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT TEMPLATE: Stage 1: ‘Screening’

Name of project/policy/strategy (hereafter referred to as “initiative”):

Prevent Policy

Provide a brief summary (bullet points) of the aims of the initiative and main activities:

This Policy sits alongside the Provide Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Policy and the Safeguarding Children’s Policy.

Prevent is one of the four strands of a cross government, counter terrorism strategy called CONTEST. The CONTEST Strategy was reviewed in 2011 and its focus was broadened to include all forms of terrorism.

Project/Policy Manager: Jane

Reeve

Date: March 2021

This stage establishes whether a proposed initiative will have an impact from an equality perspective on any particular group of people or community – i.e. on the grounds of race (incl. religion/faith), gender (incl. sexual orientation), age, disability, or whether it is “equality neutral” (i.e. have no effect either positive or negative). In the case of gender, consider whether men and women are affected differently.

Q1. Who will benefit from this initiative? Is there likely to be a positive impact on specific groups/communities (whether or not they are the intended beneficiaries), and if so, how? Or is it clear at this stage that it will be equality “neutral”? i.e. will have no particular effect on any group.

This policy complements the Provide Adult Safeguarding and the Provide Children’s Safeguarding policy. It will be equality neutral.

Q2. Is there likely to be an adverse impact on one or more minority/under-represented or community groups as a result of this initiative? If so, who may be affected and why? Or is it clear at this stage that it will be equality “neutral”?

It is clear that this policy will be equality neutral.

Q3. Is the impact of the initiative – whether positive or negative - significant enough to warrant a more detailed assessment (Stage 2 – see guidance)? If not, will there be monitoring and review to assess the impact over a period time? Briefly (bullet points) give reasons for your answer and any steps you are taking to address particular issues, including any consultation with staff or external groups/agencies.

This Policy does not require a more detailed assessment.

Guidelines: Things to consider

Equality impact assessments at Provide take account of relevant equality legislation and include age, (i.e. young and old,); race and ethnicity, gender, disability, religion and faith, and sexual orientation.

The initiative may have a positive, negative or neutral impact, i.e. have no particular effect on the group/community.

Where a negative (i.e. adverse) impact is identified, it may be appropriate to make a more detailed EIA (see Stage 2), or, as important, take early action to redress this –e.g. by abandoning or modifying the initiative. NB: If the initiative contravenes equality legislation, it must be abandoned or modified.

Where an initiative has a positive impact on groups/community relations, the EIA should make this explicit, to enable the outcomes to be monitored over its lifespan. Where there is a positive impact on particular groups does this mean there could be an adverse impact on others, and if so can this be justified? - e.g. are there other existing or planned initiatives which redress this?

It may not be possible to provide detailed answers to some of these questions at the start of the initiative. The EIA may identify a lack of relevant data, and that datagathering is a specific action required to inform the initiative as it develops, and also to form part of a continuing evaluation and review process.

It is envisaged that it will be relatively rare for full impact assessments to be carried out at Provide. Usually, where there are particular problems identified in the screening stage, it is envisaged that the approach will be amended at this stage, and/or setting up a monitoring/evaluation system to review a policy’s impact over time.

EQUALITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT TEMPLATE: Stage 2:

(To be used where the ‘screening phase has identified a substantial problem/concern)

This stage examines the initiative in more detail in order to obtain further information where required about its potential adverse or positive impact from an equality perspective. It will help inform whether any action needs to be taken and may form part of a continuing assessment framework as the initiative develops.

Q1. What data/information is there on the target beneficiary groups/communities? Are any of these groups under- or over-represented? Do they have access to the same resources? What are your sources of data and are there any gaps?

Not applicable.

Q2. Is there a potential for this initiative to have a positive impact, such as tackling discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity and good community relations? If yes, how? Which are the main groups it will have an impact on?

Not applicable.

Q3. Will the initiative have an adverse impact on any particular group or community/community relations? If yes, in what way? Will the impact be different for different groups – e.g. men and women?

Not applicable.

Q4. Has there been consultation/is consultation planned with stakeholders/ beneficiaries/ staff who will be affected by the initiative? Summarise (bullet points) any important issues arising from the consultation.

Not applicable.

Q5. Given your answers to the previous questions, how will your plans be revised to reduce/eliminate negative impact or enhance positive impact? Are there specific factors which need to be taken into account?

Not applicable.

Q6. How will the initiative continue to be monitored and evaluated, including its impact on particular groups/ improving community relations? Where appropriate, identify any additional data that will be required.

Not applicable.

Guidelines: Things to consider

An initiative may have a positive impact on some sectors of the community but leave others excluded or feeling they are excluded. Consideration should be given to how this can be tackled or minimised.

It is important to ensure that relevant groups/communities are identified who should be consulted. This may require taking positive action to engage with those groups who are traditionally less likely to respond to consultations, and could form a specific part of the initiative.

The consultation process should form a meaningful part of the initiative as it develops, and help inform any future action.

If the EIA shows an adverse impact, is this because it contravenes any equality legislation? If so, the initiative must be modified or abandoned. There may be another way to meet the objective(s) of the initiative.

Further information:

Useful Websites www.equalityhumanrights.com Website for new Equality agency www.employers-forum.co.uk – Employers forum on disability www.disabilitynow.org.uk – online disability related newspaper www.efa.org.uk – Employers forum on age