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.
Boundaries between the UK’s counter-extremism strategy Prevent as being a counter-terrorism tool as well as being part of safeguarding are blurring the lines between care and cruelty.
The teaching of Fundamental British Values in schools is incorporated into the requirement of schools under Prevent, so why does Shawcross ignore its impact and meaning in his report?
Witnesses to the House of Commons home affairs select committee tripped over themselves last week in a bid to answer who gets to define a person as an “extremist”, and
The Manchester Arena Inquiry undermines the Shawcross’s attempts to shunt Muslim-led civil society groups into the same frame as terrorism.
Rights & Security International (RSI) has raised concerns about trends suggested by UK data on race and ethnicity from Prevent and Channel referrals.
New legal child-specific terrorism orders should be brought in to tackle the growing numbers being arrested, the official adviser on terrorism law has told the UK government.
The Prevent strategy of the UK’s counter-extremism policy is out of step with the realities of British society, and its placing of religious communities of belonging under suspicion is counter-productive
The Department for Education has released its new Prevent Duty Self-Assessment Tool for Schools, designed to help Designated Safeguarding Leads and wider Senior Leadership Teams implement Prevent.
Communities Secretary Michael Gove and the Independent reviewer of the Prevent strategy William Shawcross addressed a profit-making pro-Prevent lobbying group, with mysterious funding, the Byline Times has revealed.
RICU, a mysterious communications unit within the Home Office, dedciated to “behaviour change activity in support of national security priorities”, has signed a £1m deal for “media monitoring and evaluation
