{"id":85961,"date":"2026-03-05T12:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85961"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:42:26","slug":"circumcision-classed-as-potentially-harmful-practice-in-new-cps-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/circumcision-classed-as-potentially-harmful-practice-in-new-cps-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumcision classed as potentially harmful practice in new CPS guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XA3He.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The CPS decided against including circumcision alongside dowry abuse, witchcraft and female genital mutilation in new guidance on honour-based abuse. Photograph: Benjamin John\/Alamy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Circumcision has been classed as a potentially harmful practice in new official guidance for criminal prosecutors in England and Wales,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/circumcision-classed-as-potentially-harmful-practice-in-new-cps-guidance\/ar-AA1XzU87?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a96419577e413292d55d3805cd14a1&amp;cvpid=29e49727e8854215f2554bbee4dbea42&amp;ei=61\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Circumcision has been classed as a potentially harmful practice in new official guidance for criminal prosecutors in England and Wales,\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/crown-prosecution-service.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85962,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85961\/revisions\/85962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}