Police more than six times more likely to strip-search black children

The Child Q scandal, when a black teenage girl was strip-searched at school in east London, led to protests outside Stoke Newington police station in London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Black children are more than six times more likely than white children to be subjected to a strip-search by police, a new study shows.

Of the forces in England and Wales that provided data for the study, 10 showed a disparity where black people were 10 times more likely to be strip-searched. Sussex police were 18 times more likely to subject a black person to a strip search.