Child Q: strip-searches are a violation of human rights
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Former director of education at the London borough where Child Q was humiliated said the incident reminded him of Apartheid South Africa
By Lester Holloway
The traumatic strip-search of Child Q in a Hackney school by police officers was a ‘violation of human rights’, a former director of education in the north-east London borough has said.
Professor Gus John said the humiliating intimate search on the 15-year-old girl reminded him of how children were treated in apartheid South Africa, and said this was an example of the creeping ‘securitisation’ of education with police patrolling school corridors.
It emerged today that 25 intimate searches were carried out on children in one year in Hackney, sparking fears that this is becoming a widespread practice in diverse and multicultural schools across Britain. Of those 25 strip-searches, 23 were black, and in almost all cases nothing incriminating was found.
Professor John warned that the practice of strip-searching was becoming increasing...
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