Start with safety
Use the prepared teacher guidance and preserve each pupil’s right to pass and seek help privately.
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How to Teach FGM Safely in Schools
FGM should be taught accurately, sensitively and as part of wider safeguarding and relationships education. Pupils should not be asked to disclose personal experiences, research sensitive material in ways that could place them at risk or view graphic material in order to understand the harm caused by FGM.
Create distance from pupils’ private lives
Use the prepared teacher guidance and preserve each pupil’s right to pass and seek help privately.
Avoid stereotypes
Do not treat a culture, religion, country or ethnicity as a safeguarding checklist.
Avoid shock tactics
Graphic material is unnecessary and may distress pupils.
Teach safe help-seeking
Use the prepared teacher guidance and preserve each pupil’s right to pass and seek help privately.
Know your safeguarding procedure
Use the prepared teacher guidance and preserve each pupil’s right to pass and seek help privately.
Know the distinction between concern and proof
Use the prepared teacher guidance and preserve each pupil’s right to pass and seek help privately.
Provide private support
Use the prepared teacher guidance and preserve each pupil’s right to pass and seek help privately.