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FGM Awareness & Prevention Training
This FGM Awareness and Prevention Training Course provides useful information about Female Genital Mutilation and will help you spot the signs of potential FGM, as well as teach you how to intervene should you suspect a child is going to be subjected to the procedure. This FGM Course is CPD Accredited and can be used in conjunction with our Safeguarding Children Course.
FGM is ILLEGAL and classed as child abuse in the UK. It is often performed to young girls between the age of four and eight, to ensure it is before puberty. The aim of FGM is to inhibit women's sexual feelings.
FGM stands for Female Genital Mutilation. This is the operation woman face where their genitals are cut out, altered or damaged. This operation does not have a medical reason behind it, it is more often due to cultural or non-therapeutic beliefs. Other terms it falls under are 'female circumcision' or 'cutting' among others.
There are four different types of FGM that are explained in the course and they are often performed by people who are not medically trained (but may have conducted FGM many times before). But outside of the UK, this may be different, qualified professionals may perform it. Another problem often associated with FGM is that antiseptics and anaesthetics are not often used and this can result in large amounts of pain and sometimes infection.
But the arguably biggest problem with FGM is that due to the age of the girls receiving the procedure, they may not actually consent to it and are forced into it. Additionally, there are not any health benefits for this procedure but they can cause problems for the recipient.
This course aims to equip you with the tools to know what to look for if you suspect a child is going to be subjected to FGM and what you can do to prevent it.
Alternative languages available. Check our translation page if you require an alternative language.
Key features
- CPD Accredited
- Simple and easy to follow steps
- Excellent and appropriate graphics to support the course
- End of course test
- Translations available
- Free Trials available
- Instant certificates
- Appropriate for all staff working within care & education
FGM Awareness & Prevention Certificate
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This FGM Awareness Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your FGM Awareness Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, completion date, expiry date and all relevant approvals.
Legislation Relating to Female Genital Mutilation
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work. Take a look at relevant legislation below.
Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003
The FGM Act 2003 applies to the UK (not Scotland, they have the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005) and also any UK nationals that perform the act outside of the UK. It also makes the act of performing FGM punishable by up to 14 years.
The possible offences under the Act are broken down into 4 sections:
- The offence of Female Genital Mutilation
- The offence of assisting a girl to mutilate her own genitals
- Assisting a non-UK person to mutilate the genitalia of an overseas person
- The offence of a UK national or resident performing the act outside of the UK
Definitions, penalties and consequential provisions are also covered within this act. This Act was created in order to punish those who have performed FGM illegally.