Consultation on Barnet's strategy for tackling harmful practices such as FGM and forced marriage
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Overview
In 2018 the Barnet Safeguarding Children's Partnership made a commitment to better understand how Barnet residents were affected by harmful practices.
Harmful cultural practices are discriminatory practices committed regularly over such long periods of time that communities and societies begin to consider them acceptable. Harmful practices can include female genital mutilation, honour based violence, forced marriage, breast flattening and abuse linked to faith or belief.
We began a review to understand how often harmful practices happen in Barnet, how well the abuse is reported, and how services are supporting adults and children at risk of this abuse, or whoContinue reading