As part of David Cameron’s five year plan to tackle extremism, announced today, parents who fear their children may flee to Syria will have the power to cancel their passports
Parents who fear their children are being radicalised and may flee to Syria to fight for Isis will have the power to cancel their passports under new plans unveiled today.
David Cameron said that parents would be given the new powers in a speech today setting out a five year plan to tackle “head-on the poisonous Islamist extremist ideology”.
Mr Cameron said that ministers will now introduce a scheme to “enable parents to apply directly to get their child’s passport cancelled to prevent travel”.
The Prime Minister used to the speech to warn young British muslims who have sympathies with so called Islamic State that they will simply become “cannon fodder” if they travel to Syria to fight. He said girls travelling to Syria will be “enslaved and abused”.
Mr Cameron said that the government would provide more money for groups who spread an “alternative narrative” against extremism ideology and said that Ofcom would be provided with more powers to tackle channels which promote messages of hate.
He also indicated that action would be tackle to confront racially segregated cities where residents only expereicen one culture and interact with one religion.
Speaking at a school in Birmingham, he said: “It is right to look again more broadly at how we can move away from segregated schooling in our most divided communities.
“We have already said that all new faith academies and free schools must allocate half their places without reference to faith.
“But now we’ll go further to incentivise schools in our most divided areas to provide a shared future for our children whether by sharing the same site and facilities by more integrated teaching across sites or by supporting the creation of new integrated free schools in the most segregated areas.”
He added: “The Government needs to start asking searching questions about social housing to promote integration and avoid segregated social housing estates where people living there are from the same single minority ethnic background.”