This leaflet contains information on what CALFB is, the risk indicators and signs a child is undergoing CALFB and what professionals should do if they are concerned.
Section: Harmful Practices
PANT’S – FGM Lesson Plan
This workshop uses a simple animation that embeds FGM into the already widely known and familiar NSPCC PANTS resource in an age appropriate and sensitive way. This resource is aimed primarily at children in years 5 and 6. The lesson plan could also be used on a one to one basis to help educate a child as part of on-going work.
Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC)
GIRFEC is the national approach in Scotland to improving outcomes and supporting the well-being of children and young people by offering the right help at the right time from the right people. It supports them and their parent(s) to work in partnership with the services that can help them.
Underwear Rule (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan contains everything you need for an hour-long lesson to teach children about the underwear rule and help to keep them safe. This is a general safeguarding and body rights and does not cover FGM specifically. Get together and singalong with Pantosaurus above to get the conversation started. This is a great tool to use with children to help them keep themselves safe.
Counter-Extremism Strategy
This strategy is about countering all forms of extremism: violent and non-violent; Islamist and the neo-Nazi. The strategy also explores harmful traditional practices including Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriage and so-called Honour-Based Violence as extreme forms of violence against women and girls that are deeply harmful and often stem from a wider view that denies women core human rights.
Training Toolkit for Professionals Engaging with Minority Ethnic Culture and Faith
Training toolkit aimed at helping professionals to develop effective practices for protecting and promoting the welfare of children living in circumstances which appear to be complex because of their faith, culture or nationality. Topics covered include: female genital mutilation; children with disabilities; forced marriage; domestic violence; sexual exploitation; trafficked children.
Harmful traditional practices affecting women and girls (Factsheet)
Factsheet containing information on harmful traditional practices including FGM, Early/Forced Marriage, Son Preference, Honor Crimes and Violence or Murder related to Dowry Payment.
Breast Ironing: a harmful practice that has been silenced for to long.
A report by Gender Empowerment and Development, focussing on the prevalence and context of Breast Ironing in Cameroon.
Violating children’s rights: Harmful practices based on tradition, culture, religion or superstition
Report on harmful practices against children based on tradition, culture, religion or superstition. It looks at the definition and scope of harmful practices from a human rights perspective, and provides examples of legal and other measures already taken to challenge and eliminate them. Makes recommendations for action by states, UN and UN-related agencies, INGOs, NGOs, national human rights institutions and others.
Safeguarding children’s rights: exploring issues of witchcraft and spirit possession in London’s African communities.
The Safeguarding Children’s Rights initiative was established in 2007 in response to concerns raised by African community groups about faith-based child abuse linked to a belief in spirit possession in London communities. This report evaluates the work of four community organisations funded by the project. Also outlines the context, including the background to witchcraft and spirit possession in the UK and the African context for child protection and children’s rights.