But the city’s politicians are considering how to give greater support and training to teachers in the battle to identify extremist behaviour.
Members of the Prevent strategy, a scheme drawn up by the Home Office to tackle terrorism, told a city scrutiny committee that the most important people in the fight against extremism are young people.
In July 2014, Aseel Muthana, his brother Nasser and a friend Reyaad Khan, all from Cardiff, travelled to Syria and joined IS.
Carl Davies, the Home Office Prevent coordinator, said pictures of them had subsequently been used whenever terrorism was discussed in the UK media.
He said: “It’s quite damaging to communities in Cardiff every time these things are played on television.
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