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What to do if you or someone you know is being forced into getting married, how you can try to stop the marriage from taking place, and what to do if you want to leave a forced marriage
How to protect, advise and support victims of forced marriage, including information and practice guidelines for professionals.
Apply for a forced marriage protection order - documents, urgent orders, attend a hearing
You can apply for a forced marriage protection order if one of the…
You can apply for a forced marriage protection order yourself or if you’re…
You’ll be sent a ‘notice of proceedings’. It’ll tell you the date of your…
Yearly statistics on the number of cases reported to the government’s Forced Marriage Unit through its public helpline and email inbox.
A forced marriage is conducted without the valid consent of one or both people, and pressure or abuse is used.
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.
Everyone has the right to choose whether to marry, who they marry and when they marry.
This resource pack highlights examples of best practice and helps ensure that effective support is available to victims of forced marriage.
Videos in British Sign Language, comprising statutory guidance for leaders of organisations, and non-statutory guidance for front-line staff, on forced marriage.
How a protection order can help if you’re being forced into marriage, or are already in a forced marriage.
This review draws on academic papers as well as reports by international development organisations on the ways to end forced marriage
Information on the number of cases reported to the government’s Forced Marriage Unit via its public helpline and email inbox from 1 January to 31 December 2018.
We are seeking views on a possible mandatory reporting duty, requiring certain professionals to report cases of forced marriage, and on how government guidance should be updated.
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