The strategy aimed at stopping people becoming terrorists is facing calls for it to be overhauled.
The government is facing a difficult dilemma over its controversial counter-extremism programme called Prevent.had earlier been referred to this scheme has reinforced calls for it to be overhauled and made "more robust".
Prevent has always been the most difficult and controversial strand of the government's multi-faceted counter-terrorism strategy, originally set up by Tony Blair's government under the title Contest. Prevent has long been criticised by certain Muslim community activists who say it unfairly demonises and profiles Muslims.
Attendance is not compulsory and the individual's name and details are not normally passed to MI5, the Security Service, unless there is a concern that at the end of the course the intervention has failed to steer them away from extremism. It is unlikely this would be welcomed by an already overstretched MI5 that is coping with over 600 active investigations. The last thing MI5 would need is adding hundreds more names to its 3,000-plus list of active "subjects of interest", taking up considerable resources, when most, if not all, of those names may turn out to be harmless.
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