An ambitious undertaking: More lessons for Prevent

17th September 2025Andrew Staniforth, Policing Insight

The Prevent programme has been a vital but often criticised element of the UK government’s counter-terrorism efforts; the latest review of the programme, prompted by the murders of three young girls in Southport and Conservative MP Sir David Amess in separate knife attacks, has highlighted both the failures and fault lines of the approach, as well as its potential to achieve successful interventions, as Policing Insight’s Andrew Staniforth reports.

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An ambitious undertaking: More lessons for Prevent

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