Minister vows 'tougher guidelines' after schoolgirl strip-searched
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says he will set out new policy after the "appalling" incident.
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Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says he will set out new policy after the "appalling" incident.
Nimco Ali said the strip-searching of a child ‘should be something we shouldn’t be able to tolerate in this country’.
Nimco Ali said the strip-searching of a child ‘should be something we shouldn’t be able to tolerate in this country’.
Nimco Ali said the strip-searching of a child ‘should be something we shouldn’t be able to tolerate in this country’.
The teenager, known only as Child Q, was strip-searched by female Metropolitan Police officers at her north London school without another adult present in December 2020.