Thread by @PREVENTwatchUK

The People’s Review of Prevent gives a voice to the people most impacted by the Prevent Duty. This review is organised and supported by a wider range of people and organisations. /1 #PreventReview

This review was needed because there is a growing view that, given previous government reviews of Prevent, and the recent Race Review and the Islamophobia review, the government is not best placed to independently review Prevent and its impact. /2 #PreventReview

This year, after the appointment of William Shawcross to lead the Prevent review, over 500 organisations and individuals decided to boycott it. peoplesreviewofprevent.org/boycott/ /3 #PreventReview

The People’s Review combines academics and NGOs working with victims of Prevent to give a voice to the people most impacted by the Prevent Duty. /4 #PreventReview

After 6 months of rigorous, peer-reviewed analysis of academic literature, submissions, and testimonies of individuals impacted by Prevent drawn from almost 600 cases brought to Prevent Watch, we are pleased to announce the publication of the findings. /5 #PreventReview

Finding that Prevent is Islamophobic, discriminatory, and undermining of individual rights including free expression, data protection, privacy, and children’s rights; recognising also that Prevent undermines the safeguarding obligations by bringing children and…/6 #PreventReview

…young people under an extraordinarily extensive net of surveillance and subjecting them to the ‘fundamental British values’ curriculum determined by national security interests; /7 #PreventReview

Observing how oppressive mechanisms of Prevent are being shared with oppressive regimes, including those which terrorise their Muslim populations; noting that Prevent is part of a broader drift towards authoritarianism and efforts to reduce the rights of people; /8 #PreventReview

And concluding Prevent has no justification in light of national security requirements for its policies and practices in education or in other services provided for them, which can all be satisfied through other measures; /9 #PreventReview

The review calls on the government to withdraw its ineffective Prevent strategy. And we further call upon practitioners caught up in Prevent, community groups, trade unions, professional associations, and civil society groups to demand that Prevent be withdrawn./10 #PreventReview

Download the report from here: peoplesreviewofprevent.org