• NEW! Lesson plans for schools

    The National FGM Centre, in partnership with the Eve Appeal have collaborated in co-designing lesson plans for introducing FGM to young people, in Key Stages 1, 2 and 3.

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  • Exploring culture, faith and belief in assessments resource

    This question guide can be used by multi-agency professionals to explore culture, faith, or belief with families within a holistic assessment of risk in any case of child protection.

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  • Harmful Practices E-Learning

    We have developed the worlds first harmful practices E-Learning tool to aid practitioners working with children and vulnerable adults to address harmful practices holistically. Click here to explore!

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  • FGM Guidance for Schools

    The purpose of this guidance is to equip professionals in education settings to respond to concerns regarding girls at risk of FGM. Within this document, you will find information on how to talk to children and parents, safeguarding pathways and how to report concerns.

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  • COVID-19 and Gender Based Violence Resource

    An infographic highlighting the link between COVID-19 and gender based violence

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  • Safeguarding Children from Harmful Practices, Sexual Violence, CSE

    This guidance outlines what schools and colleges should consider and the action they should take when concerns are raised regarding a range of issues, including harmful practices such as FGM.

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  • Exploring concerns around Child Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief

    We have developed five new resources to support professionals who are concerned about Child Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief including a guidance for organisations and a question guide for social workers! We have also developed a interactive case and terminology map that pulls together research from around the world!

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  • FGM Direct Work Toolkit

    This Toolkit is to support professionals educate and explore views with children and parent(s)/carer(s) on FGM. The pack contains activity plans, resources and more to enable professionals to work effectively with families and children around FGM. This Toolkit has been designed to be used by social workers and family support workers with parent(s)/carer(s), children and young people.

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National FGM Centre

Instigating Change

The National FGM Centre, established in 2015 aims to achieve a system change in the provision of services for children and their families who are affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In 2017, the focus of our work was extended to include Breast Flattening and Child Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief.

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