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Tackling Radicalisation Equality Action in partnership with Loughborough Council of Faiths and Charnwood Borough Council have organised various events in order to highlight the problems associated with ‘hate crime’. One such free event was held on September 13th 2017. There were key note speakers from the police, the Prevent Team and Channel project (Channel is part of the Prevent strategy. The process is a multi-agency approach to identify and provide support to individuals
who are at risk of being drawn into terrorism).
has only added to a general sense of mistrust across communities.
Over the past few years the Government’s Prevent Strategy has been back in the news in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Manchester, London and the Finsbury Park Mosque. Held by some as being fundamental in tackling terrorism in the UK and an effective way to lead people away from radicalisation and by others as being a heavy handed, counterproductive approach that
The conferences have tried to bring the various views together reflecting upon our local context. Speakers spoke about the way that Prevent has been implemented in our area and those attending had plenty of opportunity to ask questions and make their own observations. A report has been published recently and is available from the Equality Action offices in Nottingham Road.
