In 2020, Child Q, a Black female child of secondary school age, was strip searched by female police officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). The search, which involved the exposure of Child Q’s intimate body parts, took place on school premises, without an Appropriate Adult present and with the knowledge that Child Q was menstruating. This episode looks at the report that was published by City & Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership. 
Learning themes include:
-Adopting a safeguarding first response
-Ensuring responses to children are proportionate
-The role of an Appropriate Adult
-Racism and Adultification Bias