(BBC) Somali families feel “stigmatised” by female genital mutilation (FGM) safeguarding practices, a university report has found.
Those who took part in the Bristol study cited “intrusive and traumatic” questioning around FGM by school staff, social workers, health practitioners and police.
Community leaders are now calling for an end to a “fixation” on FGM.
Bristol’s safeguarding children board said it had reviewed its practices.
The board “introduced new ways of working with families” following the collapse of the trial of a man accused of letting his daughter undergo FGM.
