Ms Turley said: «Prevent is too prescriptive from the centre, undermines
broader community cohesion objectives and lacks sufficient integration with police and security services at local and national level.
The possible protective role of mediating variables to reduce the impacts of risk factors (including experience of Homophobia for example), such as «identity
cohesion» and sense of connection to the queer or
broader community require further investigation and provide clues as to protective preventive, early intervention and clinical interventions