School’s new tactic to foil forced marriages

Metal hidden in underwear will be detected by airport scanners – and stop children being flown abroad

Most children in Britain are looking forward to the summer holidays – but for some it will be a time of dread. This is a peak time for hundreds of girls, and some boys, to be spirited away and forced into a marriage abroad.

One Yorkshire school has come up with an innovative approach to protect its pupils. Students at the Co-operative Academy of Leeds have been encouraged to alert authorities by putting a spoon in their underwear to trigger metal airport detectors. Children at the inner-city secondary in Harehills – an area with one of the city’s largest south Asian populations – have been given a metal spoon as part of a scheme designed to raise awareness about “honour”-based abuse and forced marriage.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Lag7uE