Finnish Child Welfare Act, esp. chapter 3, §15, chapter 5, §25-28, chapter 9, §40

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Country: Finland

Section:

Female Genital Mutilation

Topics:

Health, Violence

Types of GBV:

Female Genital Mutilation

The information was last updated in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. It makes a reference to the United Kingdom as a member of the European Union and was published before the UK's withdrawal from the European Union on the 31 January 2020.

Child welfare authorities can utilize the child protection measures, including taking the child into custody from home.

Child Protection Provisions

Number of FGM related interventions

Several notifications to child welfare by public health nurses after young patient told them that they feared to be circumcised by their families. In such cases it is recommended to notify the parents as well. But no real cases of attempted FGM found.

Source

http://www.finlex.fi and FI_45_TI, as well as the existing info concerning Finland from EIGE; http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/kaannokset/2007/en20070417?search[type]=pik...

Additional information

Information collecting point

Information mainly gathered in finlex-database, where also an English translation of the Child welfare act by Ministry of Justice is available. There is no special body collecting statistics on FGM interventions since there has not been any.