Sarah McCulloch, national director for the Agency for Culture and Change Management, said professionals on the committees and their successors, the local safeguarding children boards, needed to know which communities in their area practiced female genital mutilation.
They should also draw up multi-agency policies to follow and monitor, she added.
However, McCulloch thought that new legislation to end the practice, which came into force last week, would act as a deterrent to some.
The Female Genital Mutilation Act reinforces existing legislation criminalising the offence.
It is now unlawful to take girls abroad for genital mutilation and the maximum penalty for performing and procuring female genital mutilation has increased from five to 14 years' imprisonment.
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