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Standards and Compliance Investigator
| Posting date: | 05 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £41,600 to £48,792 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National - £41,600 min, £44,512 max. London - £45,600 min, £48,792 max |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 359529/2 |
Summary
The Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) provides the government with impartial, expert advice and scrutiny on the tools, policies and approaches needed to tackle extremism.
The CCE recently established the Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) in response to recommendation 34 of the Independent Review of Prevent to process and investigate complaints from both Prevent practitioners and the general public. StaCU has been set up to make sure anyone applying the Prevent duty, or providing training on Prevent, follows the right process and standards.
StaCU are looking to recruit an Investigator to conduct specific investigations into agencies, or institutions, who consistently fail to adequately uphold the Prevent Duty.
- Extremism is a complex and multi-faceted threat that remains high on the public and political agenda. Established in 2018, the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) supports society to fight all forms of extremism. The Commissioner for Countering Extremism, a public appointee independent of government, is supported by a Secretariat of Civil Servants in order to deliver objectives agreed with Home Office Ministers and No.10.
- The Commissioner’s vision is to make the CCE a Centre of Excellence for the public sector by providing outstanding policy advice, scrutiny and independent expertise whilst calling on external input where appropriate.
- The CCE is uniquely placed to scrutinise and advise on the approaches required to address extremism and the need to better understand the influence of extremist ideologies. This was reflected in the recently published Independent Review of Prevent (IRP), in which the CCE has been identified as an important partner to help progress key recommendations.
- The CCE is based in Farringdon, London and has a small foot-print in Manchester. The successful candidate can be based in the London or Manchester office and successful candidates will be required to travel to meetings as and when required.
- A key recommendation of the IRP called on government to encourage public trust by improving transparency and establishing better oversight of how Prevent is implemented through a new unit to investigate complaints and undertake specific investigations on behalf of Home Office ministers. In response to this, the Home Secretary delivered an oral statement in parliament on September 2023 announcing that a new Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) would sit within the CCE.
- The purpose of StaCU is to contribute and build confidence in Prevent amongst the wider public, but also to be able to keep it in line with the IRP recommendations, which the Government have committed to implementing.
The StaCU’s remit is to:
Process and investigate complaints from Prevent practitioners and the wider public.Be tasked by ministers to conduct specific investigations.Develop proper process and procedure for when agencies, or institutions, consistently fail to adequately uphold the Prevent Duty.