Counter-terrorism: Children

(asked on 24th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, , how many children under the age of 18 were adopted as a Channel Case in each year between April 2015 and April by (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) religion of the individual referred.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 2nd June 2021

Since 2012, 2,897 people have been adopted to Prevent’s voluntary and confidential multi-agency Channel programme, which supports people who are vulnerable to exploitation from terrorist influences.

Below is data on the gender and age of those under the age of 18 who were referred to Prevent and adopted to Channel. Please note the ‘-‘ symbol has been used where the number of individuals in a category is less than 10.

Gender of those under the age of 18 referred to Prevent, 2015/16 to 2019/20

Year

Gender

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

Male

2,799

2,367

3,116

2,495

2,532

Female

829

550

436

382

373

Other

-

-

-

-

10

Unknown

-

-

-

-

0

Total

3,630

2,918

3,556

2,879

2,915

Gender of those under the age of 18 adopted as a Channel case, 2015/16 to 2019/20

Year

Gender

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

Male

191

176

200

282

320

Female

39

23

13

34

38

Other

0

0

0

0

-

Unknown

0

0

0

0

-

Total

230

199

213

316

360

The Channel process is entirely voluntary and those under-18 must have the consent of their parent/guardian to be adopted as a Channel case.

Recording the ethnicity and religion of individuals who have been considered as a Channel case is not mandatory on the Home Office Case Management Information System. We therefore only hold partial data on the ethnicity or religion of Prevent referrals and Channel cases. This partial data cannot be released as it would create a misleading and inaccurate picture of the ethnic/religious make-up of Channel referrals aged under 18.

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