On the 9th of April Prevent Watch was invited by Race Equality Network and Ella Baker School to deliver a workshop at the Northern Race Equality Conference held in Bradford. The event brought together a wide range of organisations, academics, and practitioners committed to addressing structural racism across the UK. Prevent policy reinforces structural racism The inclusion of Prevent in this forum reflected a growing consensus that the Prevent duty has entrenched racial inequality in public services. The fact that this conference was held in the North of England is of particular relevance given the long history of anti-racist organising in the region, from community resistance to the National Front in the 1970s and 80s, to the landmark Bradford 12 trial in 1982, when a group of young Asian men were acquitted of preparing petrol bombs in self-defence against racist violence. Northern cities like Bradford, Manchester and Sheffield, which are […]