Martin Ford 21 January 2025

Government seeks Prevent programme 'answers' after Southport attack

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Reforms to the Prevent programme are to be unveiled this week ahead of a public inquiry looking at why it failed to stop last year's fatal Southport knife attack.

Home secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed Axel Rudakubana was referred to the counter-terrorism programme three times before launching the attack that claimed the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, Bebe King, 6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7.

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Skills Pipelines: What local government needs to know

Councils and mayors are to be handed a central role in developing skills pipelines for local industries, as the Government unveils what it calls a ‘fundamental change’ to the education system aimed at tackling youth unemployment. Here's what council leaders and officers need to know.
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