Part 5: Risk of Being Drawn into Terrorism Etc Commentary on Sections Chapter 1: Preventing people being drawn into terrorism Section 32: Monitoring of performance: further and higher education bodies
199.This section places a duty on relevant higher and further education bodies, as defined in subsection (1), to provide information to a monitoring authority to allow the monitoring authority to assess the bodies’ compliance with the Prevent duty. The monitoring authority may be the Secretary of State or a body to which he or she delegates the monitoring function (subsection (4)). Subsections (5) to (8) provide mechanisms for making such delegations. If the person to whom the Secretary of State is to delegate monitoring functions is a person referred to in subsection (5), the delegation can be made by way of notice. If it is to be any other person, the delegation must be made by way of regulations subject to the negative procedure.