Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:17 pm on 28 February 2017.
I thank Joyce Watson for the leadership she has taken in terms of addressing this and, indeed, also, I thank Jenny Rathbone, who chaired a recent event that was attended by many Members here today, and BAWSO was involved in that. It’s crucial that we enable and support our all-Wales honour-based violence leadership group. That’s about data collection and about ensuring that we have FGM safeguarding leads in all our health boards; it’s about ensuring that we develop an effective FGM care pathway for Wales so that we can have referrals into primary healthcare or third sector provision. Public Health Wales is revising and updating NHS Wales’s safeguarding training, and also we have the social services and well-being Act strengthening safeguarding procedures in Wales. All of this, of course, will lead to the point where we feel that mandatory reporting and the ability to take things forward to protection orders will be much more easily facilitated.