11-15 year olds are the largest age cohort being referred to Prevent. At the moment, over 500,000 children are on waiting lists for mental health services in England & the the median waiting time for an autism diagnosis is nearly 19 months for under-18s
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[FREE TO READ] Home Office has expressed concerns that Prevent programme is under pressure due to wider gaps in public services
Providers charge the state an average of £384,020 per child per year, a huge rise from a decade ago. That is multiple times the cost of the country’s most prestigious boarding schools such as Eton College and of its young offenders institutions. ft.trib.al/MwQX4gy
A stunning exposé in FT on how Russia and Iran use nearly identical techniques to recruit teenagers to do espionage and sabotage for them. Russia and Iran have long enlisted proxies to perform hostile acts on European soil, but targeting minors represents a new twist on their subversive gig economy.
NEW: The UK Home Office has admitted that some people are being referred to its Prevent deradicalisation scheme *just* to ensure faster access to mental health & neurodiversity services, in an internal review seen by @financialtimes.com
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Phenomenal detail from the FT's obituary of the great Alex Younger, by Charles Clover & JP Rathbone:
When Dominic Cummings called him for the first time, he asked Younger what he was doing. “Plotting evil shit,” Younger replied.
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A Russian businessman & his daughter tried to buy a lake district golf course next to the railway line that serves Sellafield nuclear waste site & submarine shipyard at Barrow. UK security officials intervened.
@financialtimes.com scoop from @ramshodgson.bsky.social & me
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Russia & Iran are recruiting teenagers across Europe and the Middle East to conduct sabotage. From Kyiv to Tel Aviv, we reveal how minors are hired online, paid in crypto & exploited as disposable, deniable, single-use agents. From @christopherjm.ft.com & me
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Financial Times
Minors are being targeted to carry out hostile acts from Ukraine to western Europe and Israel
If you read one thing today, make it @stephenkb.bsky.social's admirably clear and rational analysis of the police's actions following Henry Nowak's murder, from the @financialtimes.com Inside Politics newsletter
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Helen Warrell
[FREE TO READ] Home Office has expressed concerns that Prevent programme is under pressure due to wider gaps in public services
A mysterious Russian wanted to buy a struggling golf club - located near the railway serving the UK's main submarine-manufacturing shipyard.
When @financialtimes.com started investigating, he pulled out
www.ft.com/content/19a3... (with comments by yours truly)
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
and an exclusive by Helen Warrell:
People are being referred to the government's Prevent anti-radicalisation scheme in order to get mental health support *not* because they pose a genuine terrorism threat www.ft.com/content/72fc...
Home Office has expressed concerns that Prevent programme is under pressure due to wider gaps in public services
