Police detained 242 people on suspicion of terror offences in the year to June, of which 17% (40) were aged 17 and under.
A record number of children are being arrested as terror suspects, new Home Office figures have revealed.
Police detained 242 people on suspicion of terror offences in the year to June, of which 17% were aged 17 and under The proportion of terrorist inmates holding Islamist-extremist views had remained at similar levels to the last few years while those categorised as having an extreme right-wing ideology has risen to its highest level since these records began in 2013.
Read More Misogyny will be classed as extremism under Yvette Cooper's radicalisation fighting plans MI5 director general Ken McCallum previously said terrorism inspired by Islamist ideology still accounted for about three-quarters of the security agency's terrorist caseload. Luke Skelton, 20, a far-right extremist, wrote the 'Reactionary British Manifesto' and was jailed for four years in July
Prevent, ran by the Home Office, aims to stop terror attacks on British streets. Officials work with local authorities and community organisations to 'support and protect vulnerable people'. Officials describe Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism as using violence to further aims. Such ideologies can be broadly characterised as 'Cultural Nationalism, White Nationalism and White Supremacism', the Home Office says.
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