Counter Terrorism Policing: Virtual kitchen table conversations with Netmums

Counter Terrorism Policing, a UK crime agency, partnered with a parents’ web forum to spread awareness of its new safeguarding website, directly resulting in a surge of use of the service.

The challenge

Twenty-one children under the age of 18 were arrested on terrorism charges from March 2020 to March 2021 - the only demographic to show an increase in terrorism related arrests. In 2015, young people under the age of 24 accounted for less than 20% of extreme right wing terrorist arrests. But there has been worrying growth over the last several years. In 2020, this figure almost tripled, with under 24s accounting for nearly 60% of arrests.

Much of this growth is a result of young people being targeted and radicalized by extremists online. Children are targeted across a...

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