Prevent Watch

People's Review of Prevent

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.

Calls for independent review of Government’s Prevent strategy due to ‘mistrust’

Liberal Democrat Baroness Hamwee warned in the Lords that there was “mistrust” of the Prevent strategy. Lady Hamwee said that keeping it under review internally was not enough and added: “We need to know what is working and what isn’t working.” Her demand in committee stage debate on the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill was backed by Green peer Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb who said there was “mistrust and distrust of Prevent in many places”. Read more

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