Best Practice

Spotting and preventing honour-based abuse

Safeguarding
Honour-based abuse and forced marriage are illegal in the UK and schools are on the front-line when it comes to spotting the signs and making safeguarding interventions. Dawn Jotham advises

Safeguarding is a broad umbrella term that encompasses a range of issues including mental health, substance abuse and bullying, to name a few. One area of safeguarding that has received greater awareness in recent months responds to the on-going threat of honour-based abuse.

However, while there is no question that safeguarding needs to be prioritised in the education system, how can this be expected when there is little understanding regarding these issues and how they can most effectively be mitigated.

Hoping to empower educators to better understand their role in honour-based abuse, I want to break down some of these barriers and provide some practical tips that schools and teachers can adopt in an effort to deliver best practice safeguarding and create a supportive environment for their students.

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