The girl, known as Child Q, was wrongly accused of carrying drugs after teachers claimed to smell cannabis during an exam and was strip-searched by police while on her period, a safeguarding review into the incident states.
The review, carried out by the City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership concluded that Child Q should never have been strip-searched.
It found an absence of a safeguarding-first approach in the practice of teachers and police officers involved in the search.
It states that racism was likely to be an “influencing factor” in the girl’s ordeal.
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