“[The police] use Prevent coercively because it basically means that you have a reason to try and intervene in that person's life and to put pressure on them to try and engage with you.”
“If they put pressure on a family, it's through their children. That's the Achilles' heel of every parent is their baby. Fear of losing their child and the fear of Prevent turning up.”
They're abusing the law to intimidate Muslim families. There's no concern at all about or on behalf of the child, any more than the people reporting random Latino's to ICE have.