FGM: reporting of cases among children becomes mandatory
Health professionals, teachers and social workers obliged to report child FGM cases from next week but duty on GPs to record cases among adults sparks row
Health professionals are required to report cases among children within a month, unless there are exceptional safeguarding issues. Failure to do so could result in them being referred to regulators. Photograph: Alamy
Karen McVeigh-Tuesday 20 October 2015
A duty on all teachers, doctors, nurses and social workers to report child cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) to the police will come into force next week.
The Guardian’s campaign to end female genital mutilation within a generation
