Home Office report show that in the year ending March 2021, there were 4,915 referrals to Prevent (the Government’s anti-extremism programme) due to concerns that an individual was vulnerable to radicalisation.
88 per cent of those were male.Nearly one in three of the cases passed on to the government’s Channel scheme (which aims to safeguard individuals thought most likely to be radicalised and drawn into terrorist activity) involved far-right extremism.As reported by The Guardian, Sean Arbuthnot (a Prevent coordinator for Leicestershire) said that while far-right extremism has been on the rise for a number of years, online apps and platforms were increasingly cropping up in referrals, including gaming platforms and chat apps such as.
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