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Uproar after police strip search a Black child at school, forcing her to remove a sanitary pad and reveal intimate body parts

• London's Metropolitan police faced backlash after it was revealed a black child was strip-searched.
• The girl reportedly "smelt of marijuana," which led to her being intimately searched.
• Her mother and aunt detail how she is now withdrawn, depressed, and self-harming.

London's Metropolitan Police have been widely condemned after it has been revealed that their officers conducted a humiliating strip search on a 15-year-old girl at her school after claiming she smelled marijuana. A Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review has concluded that the search was informed by racism, "whether deliberate or not." She plans to take civil action against her school over the incident at the end of 2020, according to law firm Bhatt Murphy, Sky News reported. Teachers at the school in Hackney, east London, suspected that Child Q had cannabis on her person after saying that she smelled the ...

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Minister vows 'tougher guidelines' after schoolgirl strip-searched

Much tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the "hugely distressing" strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education secretary has said. Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Sunday Morning show he would set out a new policy after the "appalling" incident. The 15-year-old was wrongly suspected by teachers of carrying cannabis. A safeguarding report found racism was "likely" to have been a factor in the search of the girl. Protests erupted after it emerged the teenager was searched by two female Metropolitan Police officers at a school in Hackney in 2020, without another adult present ...

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