Radicalism: Young People
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to work with young people to help prevent radicalisation.
Answered by Dan Jarvis
The Government is committed to ensuring all children and young people are safe, including from radicalisation.
The Prevent programme tackles ideological causes of terrorism and provides early intervention for people at risk of radicalisation.
Where a young person has been exposed to harmful terrorist narratives, early intervention through Prevent can provide vital safeguarding measures. The programme provides training for educators, healthcare staff and other frontline staff to help them identify and protect those susceptible to radicalisation.
The Home Secretary has commissioned the Counter-Extremism Sprint to identify gaps in current policy approaches and to recommend a new approach to tackling radicalisation that can draw individuals to hateful ideologies, both online and offline.
We will continue to consider any new measures to prevent youth radicalisation.
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