Child Q Police officers

Child Q was strip-searched by female Metropolitan Police officers at her school in 2020 without another adult present and in the knowledge that she was ...

She said “strip searching of children is not a one-off” and called on the minister to publish data on the numbers of strip searches that have happened “by borough command unit and by ethnicity”. But he repeatedly said the Government must wait for a report into the incident by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) which will provide the “full picture”, and told MPs the officers involved “have a right to due process”. Kit Malthouse said Child Q “could have been any one of our relatives” as he condemned the “dreadful” incident, adding that the revulsion provoked by the case “is not confined to women”.

The 15-year-old was searched by female police officers at her school in 2020 without another adult present and while on her period.

Responding to Efford, he said: “That process must complete, when it does we will have the full picture, and if we are required to act we will act quickly and swiftly.” She said “strip searching of children is not a one-off” and called on the minister to publish data on the numbers of strip searches that have happened “by borough command unit and by ethnicity”. Policing minister Kit Malthouse said Child Q “could have been any one of our relatives” as he condemned the “dreadful” incident, adding that the revulsion provoked by the case “is not confined to women”.

Scotland Yard was forced to apologise last week after it emerged that the teenager, known as Child Q, was strip-searched at her school in Hackney after a ...

He added that the officers involved in the Child Q case were not “bad apples”, but part of a wider culture. Ofsted said on Friday that it could not confirm whether further inspections would be conducted of the school – rated “good” in its latest inspection – because it had not been named to protect the child’s identity. The Met apologised for the Child Q case, saying it was “truly regrettable” that the search had been carried out. Victor Olisa, former head of diversity at Scotland Yard, said there were “unquestionably concerns” relating to safeguarding and pastoral care for students. “In 2021, the Met carried out MTIP searches in fewer than 2% of stop and searches. “The power is being abused and so it needs to be taken away,” she said.

It found an absence of a safeguarding-first approach in the practice of teachers and police officers involved in the search. It states that racism was likely to ...

The National Youth Agency is holding a webinar for youth workers on Thursday 24 March offering a safe space for youth workers to share their experiences, views and the plans for challenge on this case. Our sympathy and solidarity to her and her family.” She was subjected to sexual assault in her school. Students must be treated with dignity and respect at all times. Voyage joins the— Voyage (Voyage Youth) (@voyageyouth) #ChildQsolidarity march 2morrow. “What happened to her was abominable.

The 15-year-old was searched by female Metropolitan Police officers at her school in 2020 without another adult present and while on her period.

“It is young black girls who read this story and are horrified by it and who need us to recognise explicitly the disproportionality in the way in which the police work with them.” Responding to Mr Efford, he said: “That process must complete, when it does we will have the full picture, and if we are required to act we will act quickly and swiftly.” It is young black girls who read this story and are horrified by it and who need us to recognise explicitly the disproportionality in the way in which the police work with them