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Safeguarding people with learning disabilities at risk of forced marriage

Social Work and Social Sciences Review

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Title Safeguarding people with learning disabilities at risk of forced marriage
 
Creator Clawson, Rachael
 
Subject Forced marriage;learning disability;safeguarding
 
Description The issue of forced marriage is often located within debates on violence against women, immigration control and cultural difference and rarely considers the very specific needs of children and adults with learning disabilities. Motivating factors for forcing people with learning disabilities to marry can differ from those frequently seen in forced marriage per se; most commonly they include obtaining a carer and can typically be related to the perceived stigma of disability in some communities. Many families, and indeed some practitioners, would not necessarily recognise a forced marriage as such; this has implications for inter-agency safeguarding practice. This paper considers the complexities involved in safeguarding people with learning disabilities who might be at risk and considers the factors impacting upon adequate safeguarding policy and inter-agency practice. Recommendations are made for future policy and service development in this complex and largely neglected area of practice.
 
Publisher Whiting & Birch Ltd
 
Date 2013-08-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
text/html
 
Identifier https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/540
10.1921/swssr.v16i3.540
 
Source Social Work and Social Sciences Review; Vol 16, No 3: Number 3 / 2013; 20-36
1746-6105
0953-5225
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/540/586
https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/540/587
 
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