Our Expert Views
Rich, readable blogs from our experts who work among the community, in academia and research on new developments in Prevent and their real impact on people.
The People's Review of Prevent
The People’s Review of Prevent is an alternative review to the Government Shawcross Review.
This review provides a voice to the people most impacted by the Prevent Duty.
Prevent is described as ‘safeguarding’ children from harms. However, under Prevent, safeguarding is focused on protecting the wider public from children believed to be ‘risky’, rather than protecting children from harms.
Throughout our report we present case studies that show how real these harms can be and the distress they cause to children and their families and carers.
While much discussion has centred on the UN call to suspend Prevent, little has been said about reparations – this year, it’s time to put the subject on the table. As we enter a new year with a new government and new proposals to be...
Jump to… Each year, the Home Office presents its Prevent statistics as part of its commitment to transparency. Here we outline THREE reasons why we must not rely upon them as a credible reference point. For every researcher, NGO and...
Here are the main points of our request to the UN's Commission to End Racial Discrimination and our call to the UN to urge the UK government to withdraw Prevent from education and health...
Despite seeming to ‘lose’ the case against Michaela School, pupil TTT showed courage; she was certainly the 'captain of her soul' that the poetry decorating the school's halls celebrate - not the ‘ruffian on the stairs’ depicted by the...
A glimpse inside the Michaela School reveals a startling environment where the spiritual welfare of children is not considered to be part of educating the whole child, as required by education policy, writes Prof. John Holmwood...
Prevent Watch was at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, in support of Rights and Security International’s (RSI) submission to the Human Rights Committee about Prevent - here's what we learnt...
Is the UK going to define and ban proscribed groups? Here's what distinguishes the latest definition of extremism...
The current media flurry around a ‘new definition of extremism’ is misplaced; there is not, in fact, a new definition, but the political manifestation of a recommendation about the implementation of Prevent by Shawcross...
Rishi Sunak’s call to ‘double-down’ on Prevent has generated a lot of media headlines about ‘new’ definitions of extremism, but it's important to know that there are no new definitions offered at all...
Our recent webinar explored the Prevent duty in securitised schools, the recent aspects that further strengthen Prevent and what Prevent Watch can do to challenge referrals. By Mariam A Schools in the UK have increasingly become sites of...
In 2005, when Jamie Oliver exposed what really went into chicken nuggets on his School Dinners series, parents were horrified. What they thought was a proper hot meal turned out to be processed scraps, stripped of nutrition and bulked out...