Black children were six times more likely to be targeted than the overall population, figures show.
Children as young as eight are being strip-searched by the police, according to a report showing "deeply concerning" and "widespread" failures.
More than half of the searches took place without an appropriate adult - a legal requirement, except when there is serious risk to a child's life or welfare.Dame Rachel asked all police forces to provide strip-search data after the Child Q scandal came to light in March last year. They show that strip-searching of children is occurring across England and Wales, and reveal evidence of "deeply concerning practice", Dame Rachel said.
The vast majority of children strip-searched were boys while 5% of such searches were carried out on girls. The guidelines around strip-searches need to be strengthened urgently, she said, "to ensure police forces follow these properly, and to robustly challenge a culture that has allowed widespread failures to go unchallenged"."This data, combined with that which I received from the Metropolitan Police last year, is the clearest indication yet that what happened to Child Q was far from an isolated incident.
Other recommendations in the report include that the Home Office should require forces to report annually on the strip-searching of children under stop and search, and that parents or guardians should be informed before a strip or intimate search of a child.were strip-searched in the year to March 2022. This figure relates to children who were searched while in custody.
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