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Police strip-searches of children are ‘racist and traumatising’, say charities

The Children’s Society and the Runnymede Trust have hit out in the wake of a damning report by Dame Rachel de Souza.

The Independent UK

Children as young as eight strip-searched by police, report finds

Black youths are disproportionately more likely to be strip-searched than their white peers, report finds

Evening Standard

Police strip searching children as young as eight, damning report finds

Study by Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza found that more than a third of children strip-searched were black

The Independent UK

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One in 10 pupils skipping school due to feeling ‘unsafe’

A poll conducted over the last six months found that one in ten children were ‘at risk of disengaging completely’

Evening Standard

There's nothing wrong with lightly smacking your child, education secretary tells parents

Mums and dads 'should be trusted' to make their own decision on smacking, says Nadhim Zahawi

Manchester Evening News

Tech firms ‘need moral compass’ over metaverse child safety, commissioner warns

Dame Rachel de Souza has criticised Meta and wider social media following new concerns about inappropriate content.

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