Radicalism: Pupils
(asked on 20th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals to Prevent for concerns in the mixed, unstable category relating to incel behaviour came from schools in the last 12 months.
A breakdown of individuals referred to Prevent and their associated sector of referral between 2015/2016 and 2020/2021, can be found in Table 14 of the latest published statistics, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individuals-referred-to-and-supported-through-the-prevent-programme-april-2020-to-march-2021
We have also included a summary of this data below for convenience.
Year | Referrals for concerns related to Mixed, Unstable, Unclear ideologies by Education Sector | Total referrals concerns related to Mixed, Unstable, Unclear ideologies from all sectors |
2018/19 | 831 | 2,169 |
2019/20 | 1,071 | 3,203 |
2020/21 | 737 | 2,522 |
Regarding the referrals to Prevent in the last 12 months, referrals between the period April 2021 – March 2022 will be released in the upcoming “Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent Programme, England and Wales, April 2021 to March 2022” statistics, set for publication on 26 January 2023. As per official statistics guidelines, we are unable to release these statistics ahead of the formal publication date. Subsequent data will be published the year after.