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Milton Keynes Council pioneers joint approach to tackling FGM in the community (17 July 2017)
Date: 17/07/2017
Milton Keynes Council has announced a multi-agency approach to tackling the issues of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the local community.
Milton Keynes Council, Thames Valley Police, the Police and Crime Commissioner, Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group and other partners have been working together with local communities to try and counter the practice of FGM in a joint effort to eradicate the practice.
In January 2017, a six-month community-led pilot project “Be Bold” was launched, engaging in targeted work with local communities to try and promote zero tolerance of FGM.
The council says that two of the key outcomes of the Be Bold project include establishing a local network of community parent and youth champions and a peer-led support group to support change within communities, by communities.
Be Bold also aims to gain a closer understanding of the health needs of those affected by FGM.
Milton Keynes Council’s Cabinet Member for children and families, Councillor Zoe Nolan, said:
“This practice leaves young women – many of them children – disfigured for life: permanently scarred emotionally, as well as physically.
“This practice is largely driven by fear of being ostracised and a key to this is helping to enable people – working within their own communities – to say to their friends and relatives ‘this isn’t right’.”
Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves procedures which “intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons”.
The World Health Organization describes it as “the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other damage to the genital organs”.
The procedure offers no health benefits to girls and women – but the procedures involved may cause severe bleeding and urinary problems, infection, problems during childbirth, pain and the increased risk of a stillborn delivery.
More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, where FGM is widely practised – most of them underwent FGM before the age of 15.
FGM is a criminal offence in the UK.
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