Press Notice: Violence-fixated children referred to Prevent, and then sent back again – Children’s Commissioner demands reform of anti-extremism programme

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Press Notice: Violence-fixated children referred to Prevent, and then sent back again – Children’s Commissioner demands reform of anti-extremism programme
Published August 17, 2026

Two-thirds of Prevent referrals for children made by schools and colleges were returned to education settings – and in almost all of these the cases (93 per cent) the children received no support from Prevent. The Children’s Commissioner’s latest report draws on new data, interviews with professionals and new analysis of official figures to reveal […]

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