Funding was £6.1m at the time of the general election but will fall to about £2m from April 2025
Budgets for the Home Office’s Prevent counter-extremism programme in London are set to be cut by half in two years, contradicting Rishi Sunak’s personal call for a crackdown on radicalisation outside Downing St nearly a fortnight ago.
The proposed changes will cut funding for boroughs in the capital from 22 to seven by April 2025, even though the prime minister promised to “redouble our support for the Prevent programme to stop young minds being poisoned by extremism”.
Continue reading…Funding was £6.1m at the time of the general election but will fall to about £2m from April 2025Budgets for the Home Office’s Prevent counter-extremism programme in London are set to be cut by half in two years, contradicting Rishi Sunak’s personal call for a crackdown on radicalisation outside Downing St nearly a fortnight ago.The proposed changes will cut funding for boroughs in the capital from 22 to seven by April 2025, even though the prime minister promised to “redouble our support for the Prevent programme to stop young minds being poisoned by extremism”. Continue reading…