Black children are up to six times more likely to be strip-searched compared with national population figures, a finding slammed as "utterly unacceptable" by the children's commissioner for England.
Children aged as young as eight have been subject to strip-searches by police including outside fast food shops and theme parks without an appropriate adult present, a shocking new report has revealed.
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