Know Your Rights
This page features handbooks and briefs that will help you know your rights if you have been impacted by Prevent.
Some basics you should know:
- The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 imposes a ‘Prevent duty’ on public sectors to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.
- This duty applies to public sectors workers including local authorities, the NHS and schools among others.
- Prevent is based on identifying signs of ‘extremism’, defined by the Home Office as “vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs (and) calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas”.
- There is however no legally enforceable definition of ‘extremism’.
- Because of the vague and broad definition by the Home Office, referrals to Prevent have a large margin of error with over 95% of referrals being false positives and not requiring any further action.
- These referrals often conflict with a number of basic rights protected under, for example, the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998, and even under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
- Our caseworkers can assist you and support you depending on your situation.
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Prevent Watch, in collaboration with Amnesty UK and Liberty, have put together a valuable resource for educators on the Prevent Duty entitled ‘Safeguarding not Securitisation’. The 28-page booklet was put together after feedback from...
Children’s Rights International Network (CRIN) has written an easy FAQ to introduce the Prevent programme, and to explain its current concerns. The brief includes: What are the problems with Prevent and how does it impact on...
For staff and students facing Prevent in universities, Prevent Watch, Liberty and Amnesty UK have put together this Know Your Rights resource. It contains the most recent information and how you can get further support or report any Prevent...
The People's Review of Prevent has released a briefing document to the higher education sector that is essential reading given recent events in the Middle East...
On counter-extremism against anti-racism in education, this handbook from the Black Students’ Campaign is a relaunch of their original, for student unions, officers and organisers...
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