Prevent Watch submitted to the HASC that it was difficult to assess levels of extremism in the UK, since the primary tool for measuring it is the Prevent duty, which is inherently flawed and biased. In response, the HASC made several recommendations related to the Prevent duty. The full report from the HASC on New Forms of Extremism is available here. The Committee stated that Prevent: is becoming saturated with non-ideological cases, many of which would be better supported through health, education or community-based interventions rather than through a counter-terrorism lens. is also poorly adapted to identify individuals being drawn into extremism online. Its main recommendation to note was that: “The Home Office embed Prevent within the wider safeguarding system and introduce a triage structure that sits above Prevent to ensure that cases suitable for the types of intervention that Prevent offers are funneled to Prevent and cases more suited […]