Guidance and regulation

How to protect, advise and support victims of forced marriage, including information and practice guidelines for professionals.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and 2 others
• Updated: 7 March 2023

Everyone has the right to choose whether to marry, who they marry and when they marry.

• From: Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Updated: 20 April 2020

This document comprises statutory guidance for heads of safeguarding organisations, and non-statutory guidance for front-line professionals, on forced marriage.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and 1 others
• Updated: 13 April 2023

• Multi-agency statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage and multi-agency practice guidelines: Handling cases of forced marriage (accessible version)

  Multi-agency statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage I. The…

• Canllawiau statudol amlasiantaethol ar gyfer trin priodas dan orfod a Chanllawiau ymarfer amlasiantaethol: Trin achosion o briodas dan orfod (accessible version)

  Canllawiau statudol amlasiantaethol ar gyfer trin priodas dan orfod I.…

A forced marriage is where one or both people do not or cannot consent to the marriage, and pressure or abuse is used to force them into marriage.

• From: Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Updated: 27 March 2023

This resource pack highlights examples of best practice and helps ensure that effective support is available to victims of forced marriage.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 12 May 2023

Information for British nationals who are victims of rape and sexual assault in the Republic of Congo.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Updated: 27 December 2023

This privacy notice outlines the data processes used to support victims and potential victims of forced marriage in the UK, and British nationals overseas.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and 1 others
• Updated: 31 May 2022

Forced marriage resource pack in British Sign Language (BSL).

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 12 May 2023