Overview
- The Office for Students will step up monitoring of universities’ Prevent duties with powers to sanction or deregister providers that fail to act on serious concerns.
- A confidential whistleblowing route for staff will be created via the regulator, and students will help co‑design a Campus Cohesion Charter to set expectations on conduct and shared values.
- Reported steps in the broader plan include giving the Charity Commission powers to shut charities promoting extremism, publishing an annual State of Extremism report, and bolstering the visa watchlist taskforce.
- Communities Secretary Steve Reed said a new anti‑Muslim hate definition will not curb free speech and confirmed the government is considering appointing an anti‑Muslim hate tsar.
- Government figures cited in the rollout state Prevent referrals rose by more than a quarter over the past year, underscoring pressure on institutions.