Schools Still Risk Missing Terror Referral Opportunities, Commissioner Warns

Children’s commissioner warns young people are being ‘intoxicated by extremism’

Dame Rachel de Souza called for a stronger safeguarding response for children who are fixated with violence but have no clear extremist ideology

Schools face 'closed doors' when referring to anti-terror scheme

Education providers are "finding closed doors and dead ends" when they refer children to the government's anti-terror programme, the children's commissioner has warned.

Schools Still 'risk Missing Opportunities' To Refer Pupils To Terror Prevention Group After Southport Attack

In a new report, Dame Rachel de Souza said the current process for referring to Prevent “risks missing opportunities” and called for a “stronger safeguarding response, particularly for children who are fixated with violence but have no identified extremist ideology”. It comes after Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana had been referred to Prevent three times, but his case was closed over a lack of clear ideology. Rudakubana is serving a 52-year se…