{"id":96226,"date":"2018-10-02T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0731ba1675038392548f4bfa81edeacf"},"modified":"2018-10-02T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:26:00","slug":"news-story-new-measures-announced-to-combat-forced-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=96226","title":{"rendered":"News story: New measures announced to combat forced marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>As part of this, a public consultation will be launched to determine whether there should be a mandatory requirement for professionals to report a forced marriage case to the authorities. This will help identify:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>which professionals the duty would apply to<\/li>\n<li>the specific circumstances where a case would have to be reported<\/li>\n<li>potential sanctions for failure to comply with the duty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further measures announced today to crack down on forced marriage include plans to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>consult on including an explicit reference to forced marriage in the immigration rules to demonstrate that forced marriage is unacceptable in the UK<\/li>\n<li>launch a communications campaign to raise awareness of the issue<\/li>\n<li>work with the judiciary to examine whether anonymous evidence of forced marriage can be admissible as closed evidence in the appeals process<\/li>\n<li>consult on updated multi-agency statutory guidance on forced marriage to help ensure professionals understand forced marriage and their responsibilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This work will progress over the coming months and follows previous action taken by the government to strengthen the law including the introduction of a specific criminal offence of forced marriage, lifelong anonymity for victims, and criminalising breach of a Forced Marriage Protection Order (FMPO).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Secretary Sajid Javid has announced a package of measures to tackle the appalling crime of forced marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}