A £30m Government grant will allow the National FGM Centre to continue its work to stop female genital mutilation (FGM). Newly appointed children and families minister Robert Goodwill has announced funding for 24 projects as part of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme. In his first address to the children’s social care sector since becoming minister, […]

The NHS handled 85 new cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Hackney and the City of London last year, according to figures released this week. NHS Digital’s annual FGM report, which groups the two boroughs together, also shows the total number of FGM-related attendances across the UK dropped to 9,179 last year – just 0.5 […]

‘It is unacceptable that so many girls are dying simply because they do not have access to contraceptives, or because of myths or cultural barriers’ One teenage girl dies every 20 minutes around the world as a result of pregnancy or childbirth, according to new figures which show pregnancy remains the number one killer of girls aged […]

Female genital mutilation has been illegal in the UK for more than three decades, and the Government has pledged to wipe it out worldwide “in a generation”. But Channel 4 News has been speaking to one woman, a bank worker living in Scotland, who claims that if she and her children are deported to Nigeria, […]

TEENAGERS facing “the seemingly relentless development of new technologies” have been taught about how to spot child sexual exploitation and grooming. Issues such as consent, how to understand if they are being groomed, and what could happen if intimate pictures were sent online were covered in a youth conference with 13 and 14-year-olds from across […]

An Open Reply to CAGE Dear Mr Qureshi I thank you for your open letter published today and, whilst I do not have the resources of your organisation, nor anymore the resources of Government, I thought I would offer something of a reply I have consistently argued that the Prevent programme has many shortcomings, not […]

A new report has found that there has been 110 forced marriages in Hertfordshire in the last three years. Between April 2013 and February 2017, Hertfordshire Constabulary recorded more than 100 cases of forced marriages, in which 77 per cent of victims were found to be female. The findings have been published in a report […]

Over half a million women and girls in America are affected by female genital mutilation (FGM), and thankfully, people here are finally starting to talk about it and take action — the first-ever U.S. trial against doctors who perform these procedures is about to take place in Detroit. But much more needs to be done to end FGM […]

Pupils are being taught how to help classmates at risk of honour-based violence under a pioneering programme being rolled out in two Scottish schools. Edinburgh secondary schools Leith Academy and Drummond Community High School have held sessions highlighting crimes linked to the supposed protection of ­traditional cultural or religious beliefs, including forced marriage and female […]