A record number of people have been referred to Prevent's counterterrorism programme as the total has risen by 39 per cent in 12 months, the Home Office has confirmed. The year-on-year rise works out at roughly eight additional referrals to Prevent a day compared to the previous year. Referrals to Prevent programme in England and Wales | PAThis accounts for 52.8 per cent of all referrals where age is recorded - more than one in two Prevent cases last year involved a child. Officers working on his case within Prevent also had "sufficient information" to refer his case to the safeguarding programme, Channel. Extreme right-wing ideology was behind one in five Prevent referrals in the year to September 2025.