Police divert 10 students from terror path

About 10 school children have been stopped from going through with plans to travel to the Middle East to join extremist groups.

Australian Federal Police commissioner Andrew Colvin says the youngsters have been stopped before getting to the point of trying to leave Australia and referred to community programs.

"What worries me as a parent but also as a police commissioner is children who are school-aged making decisions that they're just ill-equipped to make," he told ABC radio on Monday, saying young people seemed particularly vulnerable to online recruitment campaigns.