It has been just over a year since my 10-year-old son was reported to Prevent for an essay he wrote on Palestine. After the referral was deemed to have been unnecessary, it has taken us this long to confirm that his data has been removed from all but one security-related database. To be honest, I don’t think the headmaster and teachers realised the full impact of Prevent and just how much would be involved and the impact it would have on us and our son. I remember the headmaster clearly saying that it was the first time that he had ever encountered this issue, and so I think from his perspective, he was just trying to do it by the book. But we now know that the local Prevent team had simply advised him to go ahead and make the Prevent referral.  Since then, he has been making much more […]