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What might disqualify you?
❌ Unpaid NHS bills
❌ Being “associated” with someone under suspicion
❌ Past minor offences, even if “spent”
❌ “Notoriety” — or having a media presence

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July 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We found evidence that the Home Office is applying the requirement in a way that disproportionately impacts not only people from the Windrush generation – many of whom are Black or Asian – but also Muslims and people from Muslim-majority countries.
July 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
‘Good character’ is not defined in UK nationality law, and although Home Office caseworkers have detailed guidance for assessing applications, the Home Secretary has total discretion to grant or refuse citizenship to people on this basis.
July 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
In the report, we conclude that the UK adopted and then maintained the ‘good character’ requirement precisely because it allows for subjective and potentially discriminatory decision-making – and not in spite of those risks.
July 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Parliament has imposed the ‘good character’ requirement through varying, but always vague, laws since 1915, and those laws continue to impact thousands of people today, including children from the age of 10 and members of the Windrush generation.
July 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
“It could also lead to a feedback loop in which autistic children are increasingly over-policed, with lasting consequences.”

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Ofsted criticised over training manual linking autistic children to extremism
National Autistic Society says guidance risks stigmatising traits amid concern over number of autistic children referred to Prevent
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“Instead, the Ofsted trainings draw a target on autistic children based on what look to us like sweeping and simplistic statements. This could amount to direct and illegal discrimination...

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ofsted criticised over training manual linking autistic children to extremism
National Autistic Society says guidance risks stigmatising traits amid concern over number of autistic children referred to Prevent
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sarah St Vincent, the executive director of RSI, which obtained the document through a freedom of information request, said: “The government has not shown that autistic children are any more likely to pose a serious threat of violence than anyone else is.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ofsted criticised over training manual linking autistic children to extremism
National Autistic Society says guidance risks stigmatising traits amid concern over number of autistic children referred to Prevent
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A training manual used to teach hundreds of school inspectors also claims that children who are autistic are “more likely to develop special interests” and “can be drawn into extremism” as a result.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ofsted criticised over training manual linking autistic children to extremism
National Autistic Society says guidance risks stigmatising traits amid concern over number of autistic children referred to Prevent
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
These deeply flawed practices – showing a seeming indifference to potential ableism, racism, Islamophobia and other discrimination – have persisted for years.

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New documents show incoherent government approach to autism and other Prevent monitoring | Rights and Security International
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June 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
These documents also point to incoherent and, in our view, careless approaches to assessing Prevent’s other equality impacts, particularly where race and religion are concerned.
New documents show incoherent government approach to autism and other Prevent monitoring | Rights and Security International
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June 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The letter states that a 2021 internal Home Office analysis obtained under the Freedom of Information Act found that more than a quarter of those receiving deradicalisation support from the Channel programme had either been diagnosed or had a suspected diagnosis of autism.
Prevent ‘could be breaching UK equality laws’ over treatment of autistic people
Charity ‘deeply concerned’ about neurodivergent people, who it says are being over-reported to the deradicalisation scheme
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
There are concerns that autistic people are being referred to the authorities because of a lack of healthcare provision.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Prevent ‘could be breaching UK equality laws’ over treatment of autistic people
Charity ‘deeply concerned’ about neurodivergent people, who it says are being over-reported to the deradicalisation scheme
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Ruth ha expuesto valientemente la corrupción y las violaciones de derechos humanos bajo el gobierno de Bukele. Su detención es alarmante y no debe ser ignorada.
May 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM