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Clara Hill

What is the Prevent anti-terrorism scheme? Government-backed review finds scheme has not eradicated extremism

Sir William Shawcross made numerous criticisms and recommendations, including that ‘government must cease to engage with or fund those aligned with extremism’

(Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Archive)

A government-backed review has found that the anti-terrorism scheme Prevent “has apparently failed” to identify and stop threats.

On Wednesday, Sir William Shawcross, a former head of the Charity Commission, ruled the scheme has not succeeded in eradicating “non-violent Islamist extremism” in a review ordered in 2021 by Priti Patel when she was the home secretary.

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