They are now hopeful that new guidance to be issued by the Department for Education (DfE) will share best practice and advise on their role in tackling this harrowing issue.
It comes after a petition was started by 17-year-old Bristol student, Fahma Mohamed, calling on the DfE to write to schools before the summer – a time when many school girls are taken abroad by their families to undergo FGM.
Education secretary Michael Gove met with Fahma last week and shortly afterwards announced that guidance on “keeping children safe” is being prepared and will be sent out by Easter.
A 2007 study by the Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development estimated that 66,000 women residents in England and Wales had undergone FGM and 23,000 girls under the age of 15 were at risk.
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