The children's commissioner for England has written to all police forces asking for the numbers of strip-searches carried out on children between 2018 and July 2022, and is due to release a full analysis of the data in early 2023.
A previous analysis of Metropolitan Police data, conducted by de Souza in August, found that 650 children were strip-searched in London between 2018 and 2020.
Some 23 per cent of these incidents did not have an appropriate adult – such as a parent, social worker or volunteer – present, even though it is mandatory under the Police and Criminal Evidence act 1984, the analysis found.
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