By Press Association 2021
Counter-terrorism police are using Netmums to highlight the risks of online radicalisation among children.
UK law enforcement are growing increasingly concerned about the number of under-18s being groomed by extremists, particularly on the far right.
In the year to March 2021, 13% of suspects arrested for terrorism offences were aged under 18, compared to 5% the previous year. Children were also the only age group to show an increase in this period.
Of the 21 children arrested up to March 2021, 15 or 71% were linked to extreme right-wing beliefs, and the proportion has been growing since 2015.
In that year less than 20% of under-24s were held for far right beliefs, rising to 60% in 2020.
Counter-terrorism police join forces with Netmums to highlight risks of online radicalisation among children
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“Individuals can be very vulnerable to the on-line narrative.” Members will also be given a report by the Commission for Countering Extremism looking at conspiracy theories involving the pandemic. It was written last Summer, following the first National lockdown, but many of the issued raised in the document have remained almost a year into the pandemic. It says: “During the Covid-19 pandemic we have seen an increased visibility of conspiracy theories ranging from anti-vaccine, anti-establishment to anti-minority and antisemitic. “They are not specific to any one ideology, but are used by the Far Right, Far Left and Islamists to further their own ideological aims.”