The Home Office’s Prevent strategy, aimed at stopping terrorism, is effective at local level but ‘requires reform’ and ‘needs to be better explained,’ experts have told The MJ.
Prevent forms a key strand of the Government’s four-pronged ‘Contest’ plan to tackle terrorism, and hit the headlines again this week when one of Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism police officers said criticism of the programme was sometimes based on ‘ignorance’.
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