Men have a role to play in ending FGM, but they don’t play it.

The Leeds based Black Health Initiative warned recently that midwives from Africa are now being flown into the UK to carry out the illegal practice and girls are being taken to female genital mutilation (FGM) “parties” in cities in different parts of England.

Heather Nelson, chief executive of the Black Health Initiative, told BBC News recently: “What we’re finding now is that where once girls were taken abroad to be cut, specialist midwives are now flown over and several girls are cut at the same time, which then leads to a celebration.