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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Withdraw review of Prevent anti-radicalisation strategy, ministers urged

William Shawcross
William Shawcross concluded that the Prevent programme should focus more on Islamist rather than far-right terrorism. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

More than 200 civil society organisations, community leaders and academics have called on the UK government to withdraw a controversial review of the Prevent programme, part of its counter-terrorism strategy.

The Home Office accepted all 34 recommendations in the review from William Shawcross, a former chair of the Charity Commission who concluded that the Prevent programme should focus more on Islamist rather than far-right terrorism.

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