Multi-Agency Statement: Collaborative Response to Potential and Actual Forced Marriage
Date Published:
December 2012
Police have signed a letter of agreement which outlines an inter-agency response for victims of forced marriage in New Zealand.
The signatories to the Letter of Agreement (LoA) with Police are: Child, Youth and Family, Work and Income and Family and Community Services (service lines of Ministry of Social Development), Ministry of Education and Immigration New Zealand.
The LOA sets each agency's commitment to supporting victims and their policy and procedures in response to forced marriage as well as setting out how the response will be coordinated between agencies. Information about the collaborative and individual responses that will be provided by involved agencies can be located on their websites.