The report, written by Jim Gamble, independent child safeguarding commissioner at City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership, looks at progress made by the council against 14 recommendations put forward in a review of the incident in 2020.
The girl, who was 15 at the time, was strip-searched at school by police officers while on her period after being wrongly accused of possessing cannabis.
In his latest report, Gamble describes “a tentative optimism about the efforts to build and improve relationships between the police and the community” following the incident.
“Not one child has been subject to a strip search in Hackney over the past 14 months and we've seen significant levels of good work from many organisations,” he adds.
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