Prevent

Prevent Strategy

Prevent is one strand of the UK’s wider counter-terrorism strategy known as CONTEST. The four strands of the CONTEST strategy are:

• Prevent – aims to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism by safeguarding people and communities
• Pursue – concerned with the apprehension and arrest of people suspected of being engaged in the planning, preparation or commissioning of terrorism
• Protect – seeks to strengthen our protection against a terrorist attack and reduce our vulnerability to an attack
• Prepare – mitigate the impact of a terrorist attack where an attack cannot be stopped

The purpose of the Prevent strand is to safeguard and support people to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism of any form. Prevent aims to:

• tackle the causes of radicalisation and respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism
• safeguard and support those most at risk of radicalisation through early intervention, identifying them and offering support
• enable those who have already engaged in terrorism to disengage and rehabilitate.

For more information about the Prevent strand download the Prevent StrategyOpens in new tab.