Nearly 10,000 radical were referred to the government's anti-terrorism strategy Prevent successful the twelvemonth to September 2025, Home Office figures show, a grounds fig for the programme.
Figures amusement 10,293 referrals were made successful England and Wales for 9,957 radical - up by 39% from the erstwhile 12 months and the highest fig successful a azygous twelvemonth since records began successful 2015.
Where the property is known, 393 referrals were for children nether 10, the largest proportionality acrophobic 11 to 15-year-olds astatine 36%, followed by 16 to 17 year-olds astatine 13% of referals.
The Home Office said the spike was successful portion owed to "heightened nationalist consciousness of Prevent" aft the Southport attacks successful July 2024, wherever a teen killed 3 girls astatine a creation class.
Axel Rudakubana was 17-years-old erstwhile helium stabbed 11 children and 2 adults, sidesplitting nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and six-year-old Bebe King astatine a Taylor Swift–themed yoga and creation workshop.
Rudakubana was referred to Prevent connected 3 occasions betwixt 2019 and 2021 owed to his involvement successful violent attacks and schoolhouse shootings, but determination was nary grounds of a fixed ideology oregon motivation.
A government review recovered that his lawsuit was closed "prematurely", and that antagonistic coercion officers staffing the Prevent strategy had "sufficient information" to escalate Rudakubana's lawsuit to the adjacent signifier - known arsenic Channel - which would person included enhanced monitoring for those deemed astatine hazard of radicalisation.
The Home Office said the Southport attacks whitethorn person besides led to a 117% summation successful referrals discussed astatine a Channel panel, rising from 997 to 2,159.
It besides cited a large reappraisal from past year led by Lord David Anderson KC, which recovered an summation successful Prevent referrals from January to March 2025 during Rudakubana's trial.
The Home Office said it was imaginable that "a fig of operational and argumentation changes and improvements, on with associated grooming rolled out" whitethorn person besides had an interaction connected referrals.
Thursday's figures amusement that 20% of the full referrals were due to the fact that of concerns implicit utmost right-wing ideology - an summation from 1,480 to 2,103 successful the erstwhile 12 months - portion 8% of referrals acrophobic Islamist extremism.
A further 8% of referrals acrophobic fascination with utmost unit oregon wide casualty attacks, 1% acrophobic Incel extremism, and 0.3% acrophobic left-wing extremism.
More than fractional of the referrals (56%) were for individuals with nary identified ideology.
The Home Office besides published information showing the ethnicity of those referred to Prevent.
This is not mandatory and tin beryllium near blank, and lone 5,315 (52%) referrals included the data.
Of these referrals, 68% were white, 18% were Asian, 8% were black, portion 7% were listed arsenic "other".
Prevent, which forms a cardinal portion of the UK's counter-terror strategy, places a ineligible work connected nationalist bodies to place radical who whitethorn crook to extremism.
The Home Office figures are for England and Wales. Scotland reports its referral figures separately.
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