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Infants reported hundreds of times to UK's 'Prevent' anti-terror scheme, including by police
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Infrapink thebrainbin.org Infrapink@thebrainbin.org
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Infants in the UK have been referred to the government's controversial Prevent counter-terrorism scheme hundreds of times since 2016, in what monitoring groups say has been a means of intimidating and scaring parents into engaging with officials.
Through a series of Freedom of Information requests by Hyphen, it was revealed that babies under the age of two were referred to Prevent 86 times between 2016-17 and 2023-24, with over two-thirds (59) of these referrals over so-called “Islamist” concerns. At the same time, children aged two to five were referred to Prevent a further 500 times.

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Malica lemmy.zip Malica@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-27
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I see the UK is still trying to one up us on racism

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ryannathans aussie.zone ryannathans@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-09-20
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reasons given for a referral include safeguarding concerns like the child’s environment, returning from a conflict zone, or the parent's extreme mindset

Sounds legit to me, there's concern for the child and not of the child

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maria ~ lemmy.blahaj.zone Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-05
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the evil infants:

... chances are that they are sleeping.

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finalarbiter lemmy.dbzer0.com finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-16
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reasons given for a referral include safeguarding concerns like the child’s environment, returning from a conflict zone, or the parent's extreme mindset Sounds legit to me, there's concern for the child and not of the child

“[The police] use Prevent coercively because it basically means that you have a reason to try and intervene in that person's life and to put pressure on them to try and engage with you.”

“If they put pressure on a family, it's through their children. That's the Achilles' heel of every parent is their baby. Fear of losing their child and the fear of Prevent turning up.”

They're abusing the law to intimidate Muslim families. There's no concern at all about or on behalf of the child, any more than the people reporting random Latinos to ICE have.

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ryannathans aussie.zone ryannathans@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-09-20
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“[The police] use Prevent coercively because it basically means that you have a reason to try and intervene in that person's life and to put pressure on them to try and engage with you.” “If they put pressure on a family, it's through their children. That's the Achilles' heel of every parent is their baby. Fear of losing their child and the fear of Prevent turning up.” They're abusing the law t...

Any actual evidence of this claim?

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Jake Farm sopuli.xyz Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-04-20
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reasons given for a referral include safeguarding concerns like the child’s environment, returning from a conflict zone, or the parent's extreme mindset Sounds legit to me, there's concern for the child and not of the child

They aren't child services, they are a terrorism watchlist.

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Susaga sh.itjust.works Susaga@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
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the evil infants: ... chances are that they are sleeping.

A kid napping, you mean

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Ioughttamow fedia.io Ioughttamow@fedia.io
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You say infants, but those are clearly hamas commandos, or so this IDF pamphlet tells me

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Azura The Spellkissed lemmy.blahaj.zone AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-03-30
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I see the UK is still trying to one up us on racism

Right, the ominous "us".

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stoly lemmy.world stoly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-04
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Any actual evidence of this claim?

Any evidence that you do not lick boots?

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Malica lemmy.zip Malica@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-27
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Right, the ominous "us".

USA if you prefer :)

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maria ~ lemmy.blahaj.zone Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-05
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A kid napping, you mean

yes, a kid napping

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finalarbiter lemmy.dbzer0.com finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-16
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Any actual evidence of this claim?

Dawg it's literally the whole basis for the article

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