Call for children to learn about FGM

Anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaigners are calling for primary schools to start teaching pupils about the issue when the new relationships and health education curriculum is introduced next year.

It will be a compulsory part of secondary education from 2020, but experts fear that for some vulnerable girls these lessons will come too late.

Most girls who are subjected to mutilation undergo the practice before they are 10-years-old, according to FGM Centre research.