Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of 18 were (a) referred to the Prevent programme and (b) adopted as a Channel case in the financial year 2020-21.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
In the year ending March 2021, there were 1,920 referrals to Prevent for individuals under the age of 18. Of these referrals, 347 (18%) were adopted as a Channel case. It should be noted that there were 32 referrals to Prevent in the year ending March 2021 where the individuals age was unknown.
Please note that we do not collect information on the number of individuals referred into and adopted by the Channel programme, only the number of referrals and adoptions. This is because one person can be referred into Prevent, and adopted onto Channel, multiple times.
The Channel process is entirely voluntary and those that are under-18 must have the consent of their parent/guardian to be adopted as a Channel case.
You can access more information on referrals and adopted cases on the 2020-21 Channel Statistics Publication:
Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, , how many children under the age of 18 were adopted as a Channel Case in each year between April 2015 and April by (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) religion of the individual referred.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Since 2012, 2,897 people have been adopted to Prevent’s voluntary and confidential multi-agency Channel programme, which supports people who are vulnerable to exploitation from terrorist influences.
Below is data on the gender and age of those under the age of 18 who were referred to Prevent and adopted to Channel. Please note the ‘-‘ symbol has been used where the number of individuals in a category is less than 10.
Gender of those under the age of 18 referred to Prevent, 2015/16 to 2019/20 | |||||
| Year | ||||
Gender | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
Male | 2,799 | 2,367 | 3,116 | 2,495 | 2,532 |
Female | 829 | 550 | 436 | 382 | 373 |
Other | - | - | - | - | 10 |
Unknown | - | - | - | - | 0 |
Total | 3,630 | 2,918 | 3,556 | 2,879 | 2,915 |
Gender of those under the age of 18 adopted as a Channel case, 2015/16 to 2019/20 | |||||
| Year | ||||
Gender | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
Male | 191 | 176 | 200 | 282 | 320 |
Female | 39 | 23 | 13 | 34 | 38 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Total | 230 | 199 | 213 | 316 | 360 |
The Channel process is entirely voluntary and those under-18 must have the consent of their parent/guardian to be adopted as a Channel case.
Recording the ethnicity and religion of individuals who have been considered as a Channel case is not mandatory on the Home Office Case Management Information System. We therefore only hold partial data on the ethnicity or religion of Prevent referrals and Channel cases. This partial data cannot be released as it would create a misleading and inaccurate picture of the ethnic/religious make-up of Channel referrals aged under 18.