Resources on Prevent

Our resources on Prevent and global CVE include our expert views, reports, statements, briefs, journal articles, and Prevent in the arts.

Expert Views

AI-Powered Surveillance and the Prevent strategy

8 July 2026

“When states transfer more power to private entities, the public loses. The government becomes a body designed to service the needs and interests of profit-seeking private entities rather than its citizens. Worse, citizens lose much of...

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Southport Inquiry highlights how Prevent deprofessionalises public services

20 May 2026

The Southport Inquiry embodies our warning that the Prevent duty has created conditions in which teachers, social workers and other frontline professionals are increasingly unable to act on their own expertise, and are required to defer to...

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Revealed: Babies and Muslims lost in a flood of Home Office statistics on Prevent strategy

9 December 2025

Prevent Watch Director Layla Aitlhadj draws out the real implications of the latest Home Office statistics in relation to the Prevent strategy – here are three important things the latest referrals numbers tell us. Each year the Home...

How is the Prevent duty in Scotland implemented and who is standing against it?

5 November 2025

Legal guidance compels the Prevent duty in Scotland so public authorities must implement the policy. A closer look at key differences in their approach provides insights for action and directs us to the organisations resisting the Prevent...

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Challenging the Prevent duty in securitised schools

30 October 2025

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...

Picture of fried chicken for a story criticizing the Prevent strategy in the UK and Channel deradicalisation for children with unmet mental health needs

Why the Channel programme linked to the Prevent strategy is the junk food of public safety

2 October 2025

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...

Our Submissions to the United Nations

Prevent Watch Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education (2025)

Prevent Watch Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination (2024)

Prevent Watch Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (2024)

Recent Reports

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Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law: Final report of the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice

1 November 2025

The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law is pleased to announce the publication of the final report of the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice, chaired by the Rt Hon Sir Declan Morgan KC PC, former Lord Chief...

CRIN report counter terrorism and children's rights

CRIN: To Protect or Punish? Children, counter-terrorism and the criminal justice system

15 September 2025

CRIN’s latest report shows how all stages of the UK’s counter-terrorism system threaten children’s rights in chilling ways. From pre-criminal, to pre-trial, to trial and sentencing, we need reforms and approaches that genuinely...

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UN Special Rapporteur cautions against Prevent in schools in report on children’s right to a safe education

1 July 2025

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has released the advanced edited version of their report into children’s right to be safe in education, including a paragraph relating to Prevent in schools that drew from a submission...

The People’s Review of Prevent is an extraordinary document and underscores the tremendously vibrant civil society in the United Kingdom. It stands as a testament to the courage of the people to share their experiences. It demonstrates the power of aggregating these cases to reveal systemic issues, rather than isolated incidents”.

Interview with Fionnuala Ni Aolain,

UN Special Rapporteur

Relevant Statements and Briefs

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Response: Home Affairs Select Committee report on New Forms of Extremism

22 April 2026

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...

Prevent Watch responds to the appointment of the new Prevent Commissioner

14 April 2026

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...

Notable Journal Articles

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Where is Palestine in Critical Terrorism Studies? A roundtable conversation

12 June 2024

The journal Critical Studies on Terrorism has published a paper including the subject of how Prevent targets activity related to Palestine and Palestinians. Prevent Watch contributed expertise and cases...

Embodying the inquiry: disaster, affectivity, and the localised politics of security

30 August 2023

Through an approach of embodying the inquiry, this journal article investigates the scope, recommendations, and forensic investigation of the Manchester Arena Inquiry, and the way it places further responsibility for security on civil...

The psychologisation of counter-extremism: unpacking Prevent

9 October 2020

The "psychologisation of counter-extremism" is happening apace; this 2020 journal article argues that this is to evade the charge of racism in managing Muslim political agency. ...