By Children & Young People Now
London teachers, health visitors and the police are among professionals in line to receive multi-agency guidance on female genital mutilation (FGM).
The guidance, which has been developed by the London Safeguarding Children Board, is the culmination of a year-long project that explored how to protect children and young people at risk of suffering FGM.
It includes help on how to identify when a child may be at risk and how to appropriately protect the child.
It also suggests how workers can broach the subject by offering professionals a template for how to question a child or young person at risk of FGM.
The resource pack will be launched on 26 November at a school in the London borough of Southwark.
Research carried out in 2007 that found up to 24,000 girls under the age of 15 were at risk of FGM.
It also suggests how workers can broach the subject by offering professionals a template for how to question a child or young person at risk of FGM.
The resource pack will be launched on 26 November at a school in the London borough of Southwark.
Research carried out in 2007 that found up to 24,000 girls under the age of 15 were at risk of FGM.
