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Prevent strategy

June 2024

  • University graduates

    Number of students flagged for extremist views rises by half

    Growth in university students identified by government’s Prevent programme is worrying, says campaign group Hope Not Hate

April 2024

  • Halema Hussain as Xara, Vaneeka Dadhria as Ruqaya and Asha Hassan as Sabi in Liberation Squares

    Liberation Squares review – polemic comedy about state surveillance

    Three unsuspecting teenagers find themselves under close observation in this satirical swipe at the government’s Prevent strategy

March 2024

  • Gove after getting out of a car

    How has UK extremism definition changed and why is it attracting criticism?

    Six key questions answered about new definition of extremism laid out by communities secretary Michael Gove
  • Counter-terrorism police

    Prevent counter-extremism programme budget to be slashed in London

    Funding, which stood at £6.1m at the time of the general election, will fall to about £2m from April 2025
  • Two armed police officers pictured from the neck down

    Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs

    Communism also among ideologies on document as human rights groups say UK scheme has been politicised

February 2024

  • William Shawcross told the BBC that Prevent was failing to identify terrorist sympathisers and there was an increased risk in the UK due to the war in Gaza.

    Public left ‘at risk’ over UK counter-terrorism strategy, says Prevent review author

  • A police officer photographed from behind

    Police failed to record race of nearly two-thirds of people referred to Prevent

January 2024

  • Armed counter-terrorism officers.

    Israel-Gaza war behind surge in Islamist activity, says UK counter-terror head

    Britain faces ‘dangerous climate’ as online propaganda and referrals to Prevent surge, says policing leader

December 2023

  • The facade of New Scotland Yard in London

    Revealed: data from UK anti-radicalisation scheme Prevent being shared with ports and airports

    Personal details from voluntary programme sent secretly without consent to government departments and border agencies, document shows

November 2023

  • UK Home Office condemed for failing to help refugees fleeing war in Ukraine<br>epa09810294 The Home Office in London, Britain 08 March 2022. The UK's Home Office is facing condemn for failing to help people fleeing war in Ukraine. The Home Office has announced it is to set up a "pop-up" visa application centre for Ukrainian people in Lille, some seventy miles from Calais. Critics say Britain is not doing enough to take in refugees from Ukraine. The UK government has revealed that approximately fifty visas had been issued under the Ukraine Family Scheme. Over a million people have fled the fighting in Ukraine. EPA/ANDY RAIN

    Amnesty calls for Prevent strategy to be abolished over ‘human rights abuses’

    Group accuses programme of encouraging ‘thought policing’ and being incompatible with international human rights

September 2023

  • Rishi Sunak at the University of Warwick on Thursday.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK abandoned plans to rejoin Euratom after concluding impact of absence ‘could not be reversed’– as it happened

    This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this subject here

March 2023

  • William Shawcross

    Withdraw review of Prevent anti-radicalisation strategy, ministers urged

    Civil society groups, community leaders and academics say ‘ideologically led’ review of programme should be rejected

February 2023

  • Libya-IRA arms report<br>File photo dated 23/01/18 of former Chair of the Charity Commission William Shawcross, the author of a confidential Foreign Office report on Libyan-sponsored IRA bombings. Mr Shawcross has expressed surprise and disappointment at the Government’s response to his work. Issue date: Wednesday March 24, 2021. PA Photo. The Government has ruled out using £12 billion of frozen Libyan assets held in the UK, specifically the tax take generated by them, to compensate victims of explosives supplied by former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. See PA story ULSTER Libya. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

    Today in Focus
    Why is the review of the counter-terrorism strategy Prevent so controversial?

  • Andrew Tate

    ‘Rapid rise’ in Andrew Tate-related cases referred to Prevent by schools

  • Armed Metropolitan police outside the Houses of Parliament.

    UK counter-terrorism report author accused of basing conclusions on ‘handful of cases’

  • Kenan Malik

    Prevent doesn’t stop radicalisation, and the Shawcross plan will just make it worse

    Kenan Malik

  • I’m a counter-terrorism expert, and I fear Suella Braverman’s new plan to stop attacks may well increase them

    Neil Basu

  • The Prevent review feeds a political lie: that fighting the far right lets Islamist terrorists off the hook

    Sunder Katwala

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Boris Johnson steps up pressure on Rishi Sunak to send Typhoon jets to Ukraine – as it happened

  • Former counter-terror chief hits out at ‘insulting’ findings of Prevent review

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