A survey commissioned by youth homelessness charity Centrepoint has found that 61 per cent of adults believe the government must make ending youth homelessness a priority. The poll of more than 2,000 British adults found that the greatest support for government action on youth homelessness comes from London and the South East.
More than 4,500 children under 16 have been strip searched by the Metropolitan Police over the past five years. The Guardian reports findings of a Freedom of Information request, which reveals that 4,638 children between 10- and 16-years-old were asked to remove their clothes before being searched by officers as part of their investigations.
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