In the wake of Saturday night's terror attack in London in which three attackers killed seven people and injured 48, Nazir Afzal, a former chief crown prosecutor for North West England, said government needs to rethink how it attempts to protect young people from extremist ideology.
Afzal, who helped bring down the Rochdale grooming gang, said the government's Prevent strategy is flawed because it is "poorly communicated, and poorly understood".
"Something I would suggest is that we are engaging with the wrong people," Afzal told Channel 4 News.
"Every time something like this happens there is a meeting and we bring in the same old community leaders, talk about the same old things, and it is the same outcome.
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