{"id":1098,"date":"2016-03-23T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T12:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:05:20","slug":"professionals-still-concerned-about-tackling-honour-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/professionals-still-concerned-about-tackling-honour-based-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Professionals &#8216;Still Concerned About Tackling Honour-Based Violence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professionals are still concerned about tackling so-called honour-based violence because of &#8220;cultural sensitivities&#8221;, a Home Office Minister has admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Bradley said &#8220;certain professionals&#8221; still do not have the confidence to question harmful child abuse happening in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>She raised the concerns during a House of Commons debate on breast ironing, a practice which originated in Cameroon but is now believed to have affected up to 1,000 girls in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Breast ironing uses hot objects heated on a stove to pound and massage girls&#8217; breasts during puberty to retard their growth, in the belief it will make the girls less sexually attractive.<\/p>\n<p>Questioned on the role of schools in tackling harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and breast ironing, the Minister (pictured) said: &#8220;I know there are certain professionals who may feel reticent about this.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.careappointments.co.uk\/care-news\/england\/item\/39318-professionals-still-concerned-about-tackling-honour-based-violence\">http:\/\/www.careappointments.co.uk\/care-news\/england\/item\/39318-professionals-still-concerned-about-tackling-honour-based-violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professionals are still concerned about tackling so-called honour-based violence because of &#8220;cultural sensitivities&#8221;, a Home Office Minister has admitted. Karen Bradley said &#8220;certain professionals&#8221; still do not have the confidence to question harmful child abuse happening in the UK. She raised the concerns during a House of Commons debate on breast ironing, a practice which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[405,404,45,98,4,10],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-breast-ironing","tag-cultural","tag-female-genital-mutilation","tag-fgm","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}