{"id":1354,"date":"2017-07-13T09:03:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T08:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2017-07-13T09:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T08:03:38","slug":"government-funding-to-expand-work-of-fgm-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/government-funding-to-expand-work-of-fgm-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Government funding to expand work of FGM centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u00a330m Government grant will allow the National FGM Centre to continue its work to stop female genital mutilation (FGM).<\/h2>\n

Newly appointed children and families minister Robert Goodwill has announced funding for 24 projects as part of the Children\u2019s Social Care Innovation\u00a0Programme.<\/p>\n

In his first address to the children\u2019s social care sector since becoming minister, to the Association of Directors of Children\u2019s Services annual conference in Manchester, Mr Goodwill confirmed that a portion of the grant would go to Barnardo\u2019s, which runs the National FGM Centre alongside the Local Government Association, to maintain and expand the role of the centre.<\/p>\n

The National FGM Centre was established in 2015 with the aim of ending FGM in England within 15 years. It works with girls and their families to raise awareness in schools and communities, and trains professionals including social workers and teachers in identifying girls at risk of FGM and reporting it to the police.<\/p>\n

News of the grant comes as\u00a0figures<\/a>\u00a0published by NHS Digital have recorded more than 5,000 previously unreported cases of FGM from April 2016 to March 2017 \u2013 with 39 per cent of cases where the age of the child was known in children under five.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nurseryworld.co.uk\/nursery-world\/news\/1161709\/government-funding-to-expand-work-of-fgm-centre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A \u00a330m 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\u2019s Social Care Innovation\u00a0Programme. In his first address to the children\u2019s social care sector since becoming minister, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}