Braverman to overhaul Prevent

By Dan Peters | 08 February 2023

Home secretary Suella Braverman has accepted all 34 recommendations to overhaul Prevent after a review of the Government’s anti-terror programme.

Led by former Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross after being ordered by former home secretary Priti Patel in 2019, the long-awaited review of the Government’s Prevent programme, which aims to stop people turning to terrorism, found it was not doing enough to tackle non-violent Islamist extremism and said terrorism was wrongly treated as a mental illness.

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