Due to insufficient data available on female gender mutilation in the UK, services aimed at eradicating the same are at risk of cuts, according to what campaigners have told politicians in Manchester.
This issue has affected the lives of 170,000 women and girls in the UK and it was raised at a fringe meeting during Labour party's conference in Manchester attended by FGM survivors along with doctors, teachers and councillors who are trying to prevent the practice.
According to the activists, only £1 million has been allocated for tackling this problem in the UK as opposed to £35 million pledged by the government abroad.
MP Seema Malhotra, pictured, on being asked whether she thought FGM should be on the sex education curriculum, she said, “We are talkin about age-appropriate sex education right from key stage 1”. She interacted with the survivors of FGM in Manchester who raised their concern that primary school children, both girls and boys, should be educated about genital mutilation issue.
