Education Maintenance Allowance cut starts to bite

The Prevent programme: an ethical dilemma for teachers as well as psychiatrists

“…A student was referred to Channel (the multi-agency panel, part of the Prevent programme, which focuses on providing support at an early stage to people who are identified as being vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism; the panel must include a police representative) for wearing a ‘free Palestine’ badge; another for quoting ‘the history of the Caliphate’ in his homework; a third interviewed about his involvement with IS after saying the word ‘eco-terrorism’ when discussing environmental activism. 3 More worrying, however, is the day-to-day effect Prevent has on all Muslim students.…”