Waltham Forest Liberal Democrats: Five things we learned about Prevent
The Waltham Forest Liberal Democrats recently held an event examining the Prevent duty, where experts from Prevent Watch taught us these 5 things.
These posts show the relationship between Prevent and local authorities in the UK, as well as how different local authorities have challenged it.
CategoriesLatest NewsMuslim News UK: Why the Liberal Democrats want Prevent scrapped
The UK has become the victim of a series of dangerous assaults on the rule of law, writes Irina von Wiese, Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament, and the starting point was arguably Prevent.
CategoriesCommunity Resources Journal ArticlesEmbodying the inquiry: disaster, affectivity, and the localised politics of security
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 society, while being divorced from actual experiences of local spaces.
CategoriesNewsTelegraph and Argus: Call for Council to distance itself from ‘toxic’ Prevent policy
The chair of a Council committee has slammed the anti-terrorism Prevent policy as a “toxic brand” – and suggested Bradford Council distance itself from the programme.
CategoriesNewsTelegraph and Argus: Bradford councillors to discuss misogyny and extremism
Concerns have been raised around misogyny and extremism, and that young people in Bradford are falling under the influence of “misogynistic influencers”.
CategoriesNewsLancashire Telegraph: Blackburn with Darwen gets £600,000 for Prevent strategy
Blackburn with Darwen Council has been given more than half a million pounds to continue its work with Prevent. “Lancashire is a priority area nationally,” said the borough’s public health and prevention head Damian Talbot. Although in 2019, the Home Office assessed that Blackburn with Darwen was no longer a priority area, the borough will still oversee the delivery of Prevent for Lancashire. Source: Blackburn with Darwen gets £600,000 for Prevent terrorism programme | Lancashire Telegraph
CategoriesNews Prevent Duty in CommunitiesBradford Telegraph and Argus: ‘Prevent is a toxic brand’, say Council meeting attendees
Prevent is a “toxic brand”, attendees heard at a heated Council meeting this week in Bradford, where councillors said more focus needed to be placed on the rising threat of right-wing terrorism in the UK. Councillors said there was a perception among many that the Prevent counter terrorism strategy was an anti-Muslim programme. This has made it difficult to have important conversations about extremism with some communities in the city. During the Bradford West Area Committee, one councillor claimed there needed to be a greater focus on far right radicalisation – pointing out that the gun that killed Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox had come from Bradford, but no one had ever been arrested over this. Read more on the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.