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Health professionals are key to protecting children from FGM

In this guest blog the NSPCC’s John Cameron writes about the charity’s new helpline offering advice and support to anyone concerned about girls in danger of female genital mutilation and the crucial role that health professionals can play in protecting children from this.

In this guest blog the NSPCC’s John Cameron writes about the charity’s new helpline offering advice and support to anyone concerned about girls in danger of female genital mutilation and the crucial role that health professionals can play in protecting children from this: The NSPCC recently set up a special helpline to protect girls from female genital mutilation. We did so after discovering that in the last two years more than 70 women and girls sought specialist NHS treatment every month. One was aged just seven. Carried out in some African, Asian and Middle Eastern communities in the UK, female genital

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