The rules around your child changed this year. Here are three things linked to Prevent in schools that you need to know, writes Dr Layla Aitlhadj. If your child started school or a new year this September, you would have been given the usual things: a uniform list, a safeguarding leaflet, perhaps a form asking you to agree to the school’s online policy. What you will not have been told is that over the past twelve months the rules that decide when a school treats a child as a possible danger have changed. Each of those changes widens the reach of Prevent in schools or the life of the record it creates, and not one of them gives you any new right to be told when it happens to your child. At Prevent Watch we support people affected by Prevent, part of the government’s counter-terrorism programme. Most of the children […]