Children aged nine and under are being referred to a government deradicalisation programme nearly every day as new figures show the number of young people being reported as potential extremists has almost doubled in a year.

A total of 4,611 people, half of them children and teens, have been flagged up for possible intervention to stop them falling under the spell of extremist ideas.

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