Not sure if it's been mentioned but I'm just wondering whether anyone is aware of the (government run) 'Prevent' programme - where the training is supposed to extend to every member of staff, in every school - and other orgs beyond, as it happens.
Timing-wise, it may have been totally due to this case, actually
- but it
absolutely compares radicalisation to (for eg) sexual abuse, in terms of the potential for grooming.
Within that, the process of making travel arrangements is also never (quite fucking obviously, imo - fucking hell, have you ever listened to teenagers trying to make even basic arrangments) one that will have fallen to the
child (and that's written into the training, afair, too).
Seems fairly clear that these girls
were recognised as being at risk by their school, too - and that it was a significant failing of the school to send a letter back to the parents, warning of their concerns,
with the girls (cos that'd be pretty fucking idiotic even if they'd just pissed off to the park for the afternoon) - but whatever, how far do you dismiss the impact of all of that when shit
has happened now?
Prob stands quite a lot on believing, or not, that they were groomed in the first place, I suppose.