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Communities and neighbourhoods

Preventing Extremism Together

Following the attacks in London in July 2005, seven community-led working groups were set up under the banner of 'Preventing Extremism Together' (PET) to develop practical recommendations for tackling violent extremism.

To secure local input into these recommendations, Ministers visited nine towns and cities with large Muslim populations to discuss how government could work in partnership with them to prevent extremism. 1000 British Muslims took part in these consultations, which were fed back in to the community-led working groups.

The working groups published their report in November 2005. The report and the Government's response to it are available below.

Looking forward

The reshuffle in May 2006 saw responsibility for this work pass to Communities and Local Government, combining central policy on cohesion and faith with an extended reach into local authorities and communities to make a difference at the local level. Communities and Local Government will be responsible for tackling disadvantage in all communities, and for working in partnership with them to improve their capacity to fight extremism.   

Although the working groups were disbanded when the report was published, we continue to work with individuals and organisations from across Muslim communities to implement the recommendations. We are also working with Muslim organisations and individuals who were not involved with PET, but who are working on programmes that encompass its key themes. 

To comment on the Preventing Extremism Together work or to provide an update on progress made on delivering the recommendations please email us at: PreventingExtremismTogether@communities.gsi.gov.uk

In this section

• Preventing Extremism Together - working groups
• Preventing Extremism Together - report and government response
• Preventing Extremism Together - progress