State failing to learn lessons of Southport attack, say victims’ lawyers

Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests young people who pose catastrophic' threat still slipping through system

Ministers are failing to learn the lessons" from the Southport attack and allowing violence-obsessed teenagers to remain a catastrophic" threat to society, lawyers for victims of the atrocity have said ahead of the findings of an official inquiry.

A report on the July 2024 attack by the judge Sir Adrian Fulford, to be released on Monday, is expected to strongly criticise failings by a series of agencies, including the counter-terrorism programme Prevent.