An 11-year-old primary school pupil was referred to the government’s controversial counter-radicalisation Prevent programme after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion.
The case has similarities to others that have hit the headlines including a nursery worker thinking a four-year-Muslim child had
drawn a picture of his father with a cooker bomb when he was referring to a cucumber and a 10-year-old Muslim boy who
misspelled the word “terraced” as “terrorist” to describe the kind of house he lived in.