A place of greater safety

Dan Peters speaks with Waltham Forest LBC chief executive Martin Esom on the greater role local authorities are now playing in the fight against extremism – having previously been shunned by the security servies.

By MJ Correspondent | 24 June 2014

The uproar over the Trojan Horse allegations has brought extremism firmly into the spotlight.

But as we have seen with the focus on Birmingham City Council, it is local authorities that are often at the centre of the fight against extremism. 

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