FOI request (FOI228623)

Forced marriage

Requested Mon 27 November 2017
Responded  Mon 27 November 2017

For each of the financial years 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, please can you disclose:

1a - The number of reports received by the local authority relating to forced marriages or suspected forced marriages.

2a - The age of the youngest victim of a forced marriage or suspected forced marriage.

3a - The number of victims of a forced marriage or suspected forced marriage who were aged 15 or under.

4a - The number of victims of a forced marriage or suspected forced marriage who were pregnant or had any children when they were aged 15 or under.

5a - The number of victims of a forced marriage or suspected forced marriage who were pregnant or had any children when they were aged 17 or under.

6a - The number of care proceedings undertaken by the local authority relating to forced marriages.

7a - The number of care proceedings undertaken by the local authority relating to victims of a forced marriage or suspected forced marriage who were pregnant or had any children when they were aged 15 or under.

8a - The number of care proceedings undertaken by the local authority relating to the children had by victims of forced marriage.

9a -  The number of times the local authority reported to the police the father of the children had by victims of forced marriage.

Risk of forced marriage:

For each of the financial years 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, please can you disclose:

1b - The number of reports received by the local authority relating to those at risk of forced marriages.

2b - The number of care proceedings undertaken by the local authority relating to those at risk of forced marriages.

3b - The age of the youngest victim at risk of a forced marriage.

4b - The number of victims at risk of a forced marriages who were aged 15 or under.

5b - The number of victims at risk of a forced marriages who were aged 17 or under.

Response

Information not held

Hastings Borough Council holds no information in respect of this request. 

East Sussex County Council deal with Births, Deaths and Marriages, please visit their website for further information: www.eastsussex.gov.uk