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The full submission in Word format is available here. This submission responds to the UK Government’s response to the Committee’s 2024 recommendations regarding the Prevent duty. Briefly, the Committee called on the UK to: suspend the...
Our submission to the HASC report on new forms of extremism answered questions posed by the HASC, drawing attention to inherent problems with gauging ‘extremism’ due to the operation of Prevent. Our submission described several...
Last month the Home Affairs Select Committee published its report on New Forms of Extremism, and concluded that Prevent is not fit for purpose. This reflects Prevent Watch’s concerns, which we set out in our written evidence to the...
Fulford’s report on the Southport killings – more than 750 pages long – found that the killer, referred to as AR, “could and should” have been stopped if his parents and various state agencies had acted sooner. It transpired...
Prevent Watch notes the announcement by the Home Secretary of the appointment of Tim Jacques as the new Independent Prevent Commissioner. Prevent Watch supports the creation of this role in principle, recognising that its value will depend...
The home affairs select committee said the Prevent strategy cannot deal with the modern challenges of fighting extremism, reports The Guardian. The government’s anti-terrorism programme, Prevent, is “outdated and inadequately prepared” to...
The British government has announced contentious new counter-extremism measures inspired by an extremism definition championed by former Conservative minister Michael Gove and denounced by critics as authoritarian, writes Imran Mulla in the...
Prevent Watch had intended to respond to the government’s newly announced social cohesion action plan, Protecting What Matters – however, having reviewed the document, we find it lacks any substantive action. Many of the proposals...
Under the plans for social cohesion, students are to be given “stronger protections” against extremism on campus, writes Jim Dickinson for Wonkhe. The Office for Students (OfS) is to become a recognised whistleblowing body for staff...
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...
Two years ago, on 23 August 2024, the UN’s racial discrimination committee urged the UK to suspend the Prevent duty. Civil society organisations and independent experts had been saying for a decade that Prevent was discriminatory and...