“Dear Micheal – I’d like to give you a personal thank you on behalf of my organisation and partners from Essex County Council, Southend and Thurrock unitary organisations along with the wider group of Essex based safeguarding professionals who were at the recent prevent development day in Essex. I know …

Thousands of children and teenagers, including large numbers of girls, were referred to Britain’s often-criticised counter-terrorism programme Prevent, new official figures showed on Thursday. Prevent is a key strand of Britain’s security strategy which was launched in 2003 to combat extremism after the Sept 11 attacks on the United States. …