Crumbling mental health support leaves practitioners passing kids off to Prevent

Crumbling mental health support leaves practitioners passing kids off to Prevent

A government report has raised concerns about people being referred to the ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism program, not because of genuine concerns about radicalisation, but to speed up access to the UK’s crumbling mental health services. However, given the biases and bigotries rife in both the program and mental health services themselves, this tactic is likely to be extremely risky for any Muslim, Black, and Brown people it affects. ‘Badly twisted…