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Dear Open Rights Group

Thank you for your recent enquiry which was received on 17/10/2023.

A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible and this should be within
20 working days, as you are requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2023-0038567.

Yours sincerely

Department for Education

Ministerial and Public Communications Division

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Dear Open Rights Group,

Thank you for your request for information, which was received on
17/10/2023 15:20 .

You requested: I understand the department issued new guidance on making
referrals under the Prevent Duty this month in October 2023. I would like
to request a copy of the guidance issued to relevant establishments,
including schools, academies, colleges and universities, under the Freedom
of Information Act 2005.

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(“the Act”).

We believe your request refers to messaging that the department issued to
the education sector in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

A copy of part of the information you have requested is enclosed. This is
a letter written by the Secretary of State for Education and the Minister
for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education to the HE sector.

With regards to the remaining information that you have requested, the
department holds the information, but it is being withheld because the
following exemption applies to this information:

Section 21 of the FOI Act – Information accessible to applicant by other
means

Under section 21 of the Act, the department is not required to provide
information in response to a request if it is already reasonably
accessible to you.

However, a link to this information is available here: [1]Israel-Hamas
conflict: Advice for schools from Ministers - The Education Hub
(blog.gov.uk)

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by copyright.
You are free to use it for your own purposes, including for private study
and non-commercial research, and for any other purpose authorised by an
exception in current copyright law. Documents (except photographs) can be
also used in the UK without requiring permission for the purposes of news
reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial publication, would
require the permission of the copyright holder.

Most documents produced by a government department or agency will be
protected by Crown Copyright. Most Crown copyright information can be
re-used under the Open Government Licence
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Copyright in other documents may rest with a third party. For information
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If you have any queries about the above, or need to contact us
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your reference number.

If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you should
make a complaint to the department by writing to me within two calendar
months of the date of this letter.  Your complaint will be considered by
an independent review panel, who were not involved in the original
consideration of your request. 

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint to the
department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Yours sincerely,

Scott Day

Head of the Prevent Policy and Delivery Unit

Department for Education

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