A damning report has shown that Black children are up to six times more likely to be strip-searched by police.
Dame Rachel later requested strip-search figures from the Met which, when reported last August, showed more than 600 children underwent ‘intrusive and traumatising’ searches over two years, with black boys disproportionately targeted.Her latest report revealed a total of 2,847 strip-searches of children aged between eight and 17 took place between 2018 and mid-2022.
Dame Rachel said she has ‘serious concerns about the poor quality of record-keeping, which makes transparency and scrutiny very difficult, and means that the numbers in this report may only be a minimum’. The presence of an appropriate adult is required by law, except in ‘urgent’ cases, and is usually a parent or guardian but can also be a social worker, carer or volunteer.
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