Safeguarding & safety
Honour-based violence and forced marriage
Honour based violence is a term used to describe the different ways in which a person’s behaviour may be controlled by their family or their community in order to preserve and protect what they perceive as their ‘honour’ according to cultural beliefs.
What you will learn
- What honour-based violence is.
- What forced marriage is and how it differs from an arranged marriage.
- How common forced marriage and honour-based violence are.
- The UK laws around honour-based violence and forced marriage.
- Why honour-based violence and forced marriage happen.
- Who is at risk and signs to look out for.
- How to support your foster child.
- Useful contacts and resources.
How the course works
The course is broken into manageable online units and includes knowledge checks or quizzes where appropriate. Progress saves automatically, so learners can pause and return on any device.
A certificate is available when all required course elements are completed successfully.
Who it is for
Foster carers, support carers and fostering-service staff who need practical, up-to-date learning in this topic.