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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nadine White

Child Q: Black professionals urge education secretary to take action following strip-search

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The education secretary must take immediate action to tackle institutional racism within the education sector following the “dehumanising” strip-search of a black child in London, a collective of black professionals has demanded.

The teenager, known as Child Q, was strip-searched by two female Metropolitan Police officers at her Hackney school in 2020, without another adult present, and when it was known that she was menstruating.

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