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Breast ironing awareness 'needed in schools'
Breast ironing awareness should be made part of the mandatory school curriculum to protect young girls from abuse, the National Education Union has told us.
The practice involves ironing a girl's chest with hot objects to delay breasts from growing, so she does not attract male attention.
Amber Haque has been to meet those affected as children.
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