Earlier this year, a two-year-old thought to be at risk of being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) was taken from her home in England to Guinea, west Africa. Following a police investigation, a family court in London made an FGM protection order and arrangements were made to get the girl out of Guinea. In another case, a protection order was issued after the mother of a baby girl in Staffordshire asked a doctor if there were any examples of people being caught after subjecting their daughters to FGM.
‘It is important that people don’t see this as a problem higher up the age range,’ says midwife Celia Jeffries, head of the National FGM Centre. ‘In Malaysia and Indonesia, for example, the cutting might take place in the first 40 days of a baby’s life.’ The centre is a partnership between Barnardo’s and the Local Government Association, providing training for educational professionals and for multi-agency teams.
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