CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Really, Prevent’s statistics tell us more about those making the referrals than they do about the nature of the terror threat to Britain. Prevent uses the public sector — especially education — as its main vector of delivery, which will always skew referrals towards the kinds of people with whom those institutions and services interact. This has led to confusion and mission creep even among Prevent practitioners who, as William Shawcross warned in his 2023 review of Prevent, have viewed terroristic radicalisation primarily through a lens of vulnerability."