Child Q: Black teenager launches legal action against Met Police after strip search

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review, conducted by City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership, concluded the strip search should never have happened, was unjustified and racism “was likely to have been an influencing factor”. “Child Q has launched civil proceedings against the Metropolitan Police and relevant school,” Ms Dolcy said. “Child Q’s family expect the new commissioner to include affected communities in designing a plan to rid the force of these diseases and to affect that plan as a priority.” Ms Cole added: “This is an appalling, shocking case which illustrates wider problems in schools and communities about the treatment of Black children which unfortunately is systemic; and the lack of safeguarding and the failure to recognise the ripple effects of trauma that follows, long after such an ordeal. “As the government sets guidance for schools, we strongly urge it to learn from the failings in this case.” During a speech about the government’s new equality strategy in parliament on Thursday, equalities minister Kemi Badenoch referred to the abuse of Child Q as an “appalling incident” but added that outrage over the strip-search shows that the UK “cares about minorities”.