Our Forced Marriage Unit is a joint-initiative with the Home Office. We see over 1600 reportings of forced marriages a year.

Who do we help?

If you are worried you might be forced into marriage or are worried about a friend or relative see information for victims, or call us on 0207 008 0151.

Our trained professionals offer confidential advice and assistance to:

• those who have been forced into marriage overseas
  
• those at risk of being forced into marriage
  
• people worried about friends or relatives
• professionals working with actual or potential victims of forced marriage.
  

Forced marriage multi-agency practice guidelines

The Forced Marriage Unit has published a revised set of multi-agency practice guidelines for frontline professionals (such as teachers, police officers, social and health care professionals, housing officers) to help them to work more closely together and to better identify and protect children and adults at risk of forced marriage. The revised guidelines replace the existing individual guidelines which were tailored for specific professionals  and now brings these together into one single document.


Multi-agency practice guidelines: Handling Cases of Forced Marriage [PDF, 503KB, 105 pages]

Domestic Programme Fund

We are now accepting bids to the domestic programme fund. Bids for the 2009/10 funding round will close on Friday 31 July 2009.

What do we do?

Abroad, we work with embassy staff to rescue victims who may have been held captive, raped or forced into having an abortion

In the UK the Forced Marriage Unit assists professionals working in the social, educational and health sectors.  See our page on information for professionals for more information.