Following the recommendation of the terrorism watchdog that the Government initiate an independent inquiry into the Prevent strategy, the Joint Committee on Human Rights yesterday announced the launch of an inquiry into counter-extremism strategy and its human rights compliance as part of the...
The Guardian reports that the UK’s terror watchdog has called for an independent review of the government’s Prevent strategy citing concerns that it is spreading mistrust and fear within British Muslim communities. David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said the...
The Guardian last Friday reported on a statement released by Waltham Forest Council of Mosques announcing a boycott of the Government’s “racist” counter-terrorism programme, Prevent. The statement follows a council meeting last Thursday in which a motion was presented which linked the...
Sky News reports on growing concerns aired about the implementation of the Government’s Prevent programme in schools amid warnings that the strategy is “alienating” Muslim children. The Counter Terrorism and Security Act placed the Prevent duty in schools on a statutory footing as of 1...
The headteacher of a Bradford school at the centre of a legal dispute arising over its decision to refuse Muslim pupils a room to perform their daily prayers is said to have referred to the Government’s counter radicalisation strategy, Prevent, in a letter to a local MP setting out the...
The Guardian reports on a speech to be delivered today by former Business Secretary, Vince Cable, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies’ conference on PREVENT in Practice, in which he is expected to criticise the government’s new counter-extremism strategy and the legal requirement...
The Daily Mail and Mirror report on another incident of a Muslim primary school pupil being referred under the Government’s controversial Channel programme for expressing views during a school residential trip which were noted as a cause for concern. Hazel Pulley, headteacher of Parkfield...
The Home Office today issued an announcement about the updating of the Prevent duty guidance to cover higher and further education institutions detailing thenew legal duty, which will come into force on Monday 21 September, requiring universities to clampdown on “hate preachers” on...
The Independent on Saturday published an open letter signed by hundreds of academics warning that the new Prevent guidance published in accordance with the statutory duty introduced in the Counter Terrorism and Security Act will have a “chilling effect” on academic freedom and risks...
The website, What Do They Know, which holds information on FOI requests submitted by individuals and the responses they receive relates quite an interesting development in respect of an FOI that questioned the Government about the Extremism Analysis Unit referred to in the Home Secretary’s speech...
