The Government has made it mandatory for all NHS hospitals to provide information on patients who have undergone female genital mutilation. Ministers estimate 66,000 women have undergone the brutal practice and 20,000 girls are at risk every year.
The director of public prosecutions has insisted the Crown Prosecution Service is "raising its game" over prosecution against female genital mutilation.
Alison Saunders told The TImes the CPS is "stepping up" what they are doing, including looking at evidence secured by covert surveillance to avoid children having to testify in court.
ITV News Central has been told girls from the UK are being taken abroad to be genitally mutilated - a practice which is against the law.
Here, female genital mutilation victims, working to end the practice, share their stories.
ITV News has learned that the government will announce plans to tackle female genital mutilation in Britain.