Civil Society Reports & Case Studies
1. The Prevent duty and its Chilling Effect on Human Rights
Type: Report / briefing
Date: March 2024
Author / Institution: Amnesty International UK
Summary: Argues that the Prevent duty violates human rights, freedom of expression, thought, and equality, particularly impacting Muslim and neurodiverse individuals. Includes recommendations for abolition and reform.
2. This is the Thought Police (included in same March 2024 report)
Type: Report summary / case-study excerpts
Date: March 2024
Institution: Amnesty International UK
Summary: Features case summaries, survey responses, and interviews on Prevent’s impact.
3. People’s Review of Prevent (PROP Report)
Type: Alternative review / collective testimony
Publication Date: Likely 2023 (online version undated but clearly postShawcross)
Author / Institution: People’s Review of Prevent (civil society-led)
Summary: Community-led counter to Shawcross Review, includes testimonies from affected people.
4. Preventing Education? Human Rights and UK CounterTerrorism Policy in Schools
Type: Report
Date: July 2016
Authors / Institution: Rights Watch UK and Liberty
Summary: Focused on the impact of Prevent in schools, especially racial profiling and children’s rights protections
5. Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: How Unaccountable Data Sharing Is Harming a Generation
Type: Report (data-sharing investigation)
Date: 22 February 2024
Author / Institution: Open Rights Group
Summary: Investigates how Prevent referral data, including that of children, is retained for years (6 to 100 years) and shared across databases even when no further action is taken, raising privacy concerns.
6. The PREVENT strategy: A cradle to grave police-state
Type: Report
Date: February 2014
Authors/Institution: Cage International
Summary: The report revealed how PREVENT is no longer about terrorism and violence’, but is instead ‘about ideology, beliefs and values” targeting the rights and freedoms of the Muslim community.
Type: Article
Date: February 2018
Authors/Institution: Farid Qurashi
Summary: Focused on the Islamophobic character of PREVENT, targeting Muslim communities.
8. Preventing Safeguarding: the Prevent strategy and children’s rights
Type: Report
Date: March 2022
Authors/Institution: Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
Summary: Revealed how Prevent strategy put policing priorities above children rights and welfare.
9. Prevent: Health workers resist UK’s ‘counter terrorism’ strategy that weaponizes public services
Type: Article
Date: March 2023
Authors/Institution: peoples dispatch
Summary: Focused on the expansion of Prevent into Healthcare services creating a statutory duty for healthcare workers to report potential signs of radicalisation which is seen as surveillance, not care.
10. Prevent and the Children’s Rights Convention
Type: Report/ briefing
Date: January 2016
Authors/Institution: Institute of Race Relations (IRR)
Summary:Focused on the duty placed on schools to prevent children being drawn into terrorism against key articles in the United Nations Children’s Rights Convention (COROC).
FOI Data & Datasets
1. Prevent/Channel Data Sharing FOI Batch
Type: Dataset / FOI correspondence summary
Date: July–October 2023
Author / Institution: Hosted on WhatDoTheyKnow; initiated from Sam Andrews, 30 police forces including Avon & Somerset
Summary: Requests around datasharing agreements, DPIAs, data retention for Prevent/Channel across multiple police authorities; many responses pending or delayed
2. Prevent/Channel Data Management FOI
Type: FOI request & response
Date: April–May 2023
Institution: Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
Summary: Enquiries into how Prevent referrals are recorded across databases, deletion/retention policies, and whether case notes are deleted when closed
3. Prevent Duty Statistics at University of Sheffield
Type: FOI dataset
Date: Provided June 2023, covering academic years 2015–2023
Author / Institution: University of Sheffield
Summary: Student-level Prevent referrals since 2015; shows minimal upheld cases; most years zero upheld or no data
4. NHS Prevent Data Collection (Quarterly submissions)
Type: Dataset framework / administrative data
Date: From Q2 2024–25 onwards
Institution: NHS England Digital (Counter Terrorism & Security Act 2015 reporting)
Summary: NHS trusts are required to submit quarterly data on Prevent, including staff training figures and governance arrangements, through a central Data Collection Framework (DCF). The data is used to monitor compliance with the Prevent duty in the health sector and to provide assurance to the Department of Health and the Home Office.
5. MPS Freedom of Information Requests Dashboard Data
Type: Dataset (FOI request logs)
Date: updated 8th September 2025; covering data since January 2015
Institution: Greater London Authority
Summary: A dataset of FOI requests received by the Metropolitan Police since 2015, including appeal and complaint details. Useful for tracking FOIs about Prevent or related policies. The file preview is currently now unavailable, with this message on their website: ‘’Due to an internal IT deployment, from 27th February these datasets may be temporarily disrupted. Work is ongoing to rebuild these datasets’’.
6. Prevent/Channel data management
Type: FOI request & response
Date: June 2023
Author / Institution: Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
Summary: Enquiries into how Prevent referrals are recorded across databases, deletion/retention policies, and whether case notes are deleted when closed
Type: FOI request & response
Date: June 2023
Author / Institution: Wiltshire Police
Summary: Request of data from 2017-2022 of those referred to Prevent by Wiltshire Police by ethnicity, gender, age and type of concern
Type: FOI request & response
Date: December 2021
Author / Institution: West Yorkshire Police
Summary: Enquiries into how Prevent referrals from schools are shared and recorded across databases, deletion/retention policies, and whether case notes are deleted when closed
9. Information on Prevent programme FOI
Type: FOI request & response
Date: August 2014
Author / Institution: Hosted on WhatDoTheyKnow; initiated from M. Norris
Summary: Enquiries into the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council ‘Prevent’ programme and activity since 2006 to 2014, including budget, project plans, training and annual reports. The request was refused
10. Information sharing/privacy documents related to Channel/Prevent FOI Batch
Type: FOI request & response
Date: April 2023
Author / Institution: Hosted on WhatDoTheyKnow; initiated from Open Rights Group to Kingston upon Thames Borough Council
Summary: Requests documents related to Prevent, Channel or safeguarding including Prevent/Channel Privacy Notice, Information Management Strategy , Data Protection Impact Assessment/Privacy Impact Assessment, Equality Impact Assessment, Data Sharing Agreement(s) and Any Memorandum of Understanding with the Home Office.