(BBC) The UK’s scheme to prevent terrorism has “apparently failed” repeatedly to identify attackers, a highly critical review has concluded.
The report from the Home Office’s hand-picked reviewer says the Prevent strategy has lost its way.
William Shawcross said the nationwide system that aims to identify would-be terrorists has funded a group whose head was sympathetic to the Taliban.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman told MPs that Prevent needs major reform.
Prevent is a key part of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy. In practical terms, it places public bodies, including schools and the police, under a legal duty to identify people who may turn to extremism, and intervene in their lives before it is too late.
