UK: Social Workers feared being called racists over forced marriage.

A nice companion piece to the post below.

Women and young girls at risk of being taken abroad and forced into marriage are being failed because local officials fear 'offending' minority communities, according to a Government report. Social workers are being slow to use new court orders aimed at stopping potential victims being spirited overseas to be married without their consent, the report said. It pointed to 'a fear of being accused of racism or not being culturally sensitive'. Judges who rule on applications for the orders warned of a 'political correctness agenda' hampering efforts to help. Schools were accused of failing to alert pupils to the issue, for fear of offending parents. Children as young as nine have been taken overseas by their parents and forced to marry complete strangers. Around 70% of cases are from families originally from Pakistan and 10% of Bangladeshi origin.