Stripping and Searching Children

BBC News (2022) ‘Teenage girl traumatised after police strip-search, says mum’, 24 May. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61523291

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Children’s Commissioner (2022) Strip search of children by the metropolitan police service – New analysis by the children’s commissioner for England. Available at: https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/report/strip-search-of-children-by-the-metropolitan-police-service-new-analysis-by-the-childrens-commissioner-for-england/

College of Policing (2019) Legal basis: Stop and search. Available at: https://www.college.police.uk/app/stop-and-search/legal/legal-basis?highlight=smell%20of%20cannabis

Department for Education (2022) Searching, screening and confiscation advice for schools. Available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1091132/Searching__Screening_and_Confiscation_guidance_July_2022.pdf

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Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) (2020) IOPC upholds cyclist’s stop and search complaint against metropolitan police officer. Available at: https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/news/iopc-upholds-cyclist’s-stop-and-search-complaint-against-metropolitan-police-officer

Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) (2022) Recommendations to met over strip searches of children, August. Available at: https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/news/iopc-recommendations-met-over-strip-searches-children

Metropolitan Police (2022) Response to IOPC recommendations on strip searches of children. Available at: https://news.met.police.uk/news/response-to-iopc-recommendations-on-strip-searches-of-children-451646

Ministry of Justice (2016) Searching of the person (PSI 07/2016). Available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/899420/psi-07-2016-searching-of-the-person.pdf

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) (2022) Safeguarding children who come from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic communities. Available at: https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/safeguarding-child-protection/children-from-black-asian-minoritised-ethnic-communities#heading-top

Nickolls L (2022) Child Q and the Law on Strip Search. London: House of Commons Library.

Sentencing Council (2012) Drug offences: Definitive guideline (revised in 2021). Available at: https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Drug-offences-definitive-guideline-Web.pdf

The Guardian (2013) Children in custody pilot scheme could bring end to strip-searching. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/16/children-in-custody-strip-searching