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Freedom Charity provides specialist training to help teachers, safeguarding leads, keyworkers and other professionals understand dishonour abuse and respond through the correct safeguarding routes.
Freedom Charity trains teachers, designated safeguarding leads, keyworkers and other professionals to recognise warning signs linked to forced marriage, FGM and virginity testing, respond safely to disclosures and use the correct safeguarding routes.
Use the concise briefing for the WHO definition, Types I–IV and their subtypes, deinfibulation, reinfibulation and key health implications. It is designed for professional reference, not for asking a child to identify a type.
Open the FGM/C professional briefing →Listen carefully, record the child’s own words and avoid assumptions about a whole culture or faith. Never investigate or confront family members yourself.
Teachers in England and Wales must personally report to police a known case of FGM in an under-18 identified through disclosure or visual evidence. Suspected or at-risk cases follow established safeguarding procedures. Teachers must never examine a pupil.
Read the government FGM resource pack →An FGM Protection Order can protect someone at risk or who has already undergone FGM. Orders can include urgent restrictions on travel, passports or named people.
Official protection-order guidance →Book a specialist presentation, whole-school assembly, professional training session or community event. Freedom Charity also works with universities and community groups.
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