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Referrals to the government’s terrorism prevention programme hit a record high last year – with concerns about extreme right-wing ideology accounting for a fifth of Prevent cases. Latest data showed a huge 39% jump in overall...
Prevent Watch responds to Home Office Prevent statistics published today. Home Office figures released today show a record 10,293 Prevent referrals — yet the majority of those referred had no ideology of any kind, and most cases were closed...
In a landmark Judgment handed down today, the Honourable Lord Fairley, President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), dismissed the University of Bristol’s appeal and found that Dr David Miller was discriminated against because of his...
The Home Office has set up a cross-government taskforce to look at existing multi-agency and safeguarding arrangements, and how they interact with Prevent in the wake of 2024’s Southport killings and the murder of MP David Amess. Details of...
Funding for the Prevent programme has plummeted since the pandemic despite Britain’s growing problem with extremism, according to figures that show parts of London and Birmingham have faced the biggest cuts. The amount spent by the Home...
The UK’s counter-terrorism scheme Prevent has been blighted by well-publicised failures and accusations of prejudice. Is it fit for purpose? Developed after 9/11 and during the Iraq War, Prevent is the first of four pillars of the...
The Prevent strategy represents one of the UK’s core branches of counter-terrorism with £36 million in annual expenditure. Yet after two decades of operation, it remains largely unclear how these funds are being spent and whether it...
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...
Prevent Watch joined a protest at Parliament Square yesterday calling on government to compel Ofsted to remove the linking of autism with extremism risk in its guidance on the Prevent duty. About 100 people gathered at the square...
Northern Ireland has experienced decades of politically motivated violence, paramilitarism, and community polarisation on a scale unmatched elsewhere in the UK. This piece by Zara W. Tahir examines why Prevent has never been applied in...
When it comes to making a Prevent referral, teachers can lean on several laws to push back against what can often feel like a compulsory measure, writes Dr Layla Aitlhadj. In June, Prevent Watch published an Educators’ Resource with Amnesty...