March 2022 BLACKLIVESMATTER.UK we to at least 14 people in office to share parents and the nations shared outrage of the treatment and lack of safeguarding for Child Q. We still have grave concern for Black children’s human rights and dignity. Sadly their rights, safeguarding and protection are all to often denied in institutions, from bodies in environments having power of them. It’s not uncommon for our child to be left unprotected from harm whilst they are in the care and supervision of authority, care and services.
The outright lack and care from professionals in this instance is heinous, and all involved must not get away with treating children with little respect and human dignity even on a basic level.
A review found racism played a part in the unlawful strip search of a Child Q at a school and with teacher and police shared and equal involvement, responsibility and both failed dismally. Each step of the way the so call ‘professionals’ showed inadequacy to check each other in their positions having duty of care, and now they must to be held accountable.
Racism
5.63 Finding 8: Having considered the context of the incident, the views of those engaged in the review and the impact felt by Child Q and her family, racism (whether deliberate or not) was likely to have been an influencing factor in the decision to undertake a strip search.
This outraged was nationwide, highlighted with protests taking place at Stoke Newington police station of Friday 18th and Sunday Hackney Town Hall 20th March 2022.
While our email is being passed along to another Home Office’s Direct Communications Unit we are sharing letter received with you, see below.
Email Letter Format: 25/03/2022
“Dear whom it may concern
Thank you for writing to the Council regarding the Local Child Safeguarding Practice review into the case of Child Q. As Group Director for Children & Education, I am responding on behalf of the
Council.
My thoughts are first and foremost with the child and her family. We know that there will have been a traumatic impact on this girl, her family and those closest to her. Please be assured that the Council is continuing to offer support to Child Q and her family, who are our utmost priority.
The anonymity of Child Q is paramount and anything said or done to identify her would be wrong....”
Jacquie Burke
Group Director (Children & Education)
2nd Floor, Hackney Town Hall
020 8356 8032
Executive Support Officer:
rebecca.coveney@hackney.gov.uk
Email Letter Format: 11/04/2022
"Dear Correspondent
Thank you for your recent correspondence following the publication of the local child safeguarding practice review on 14 March 2022, and the concerns you have raised on behalf of Child Q.
I hope you will appreciate that, whilst many people have contacted the department to find reason and justice on Child Q’s behalf, it is of paramount importance that the anonymity of Child Q and her family, and that of the chool, are preserved. The department is in touch with the local authority, and they are supporting Child Q.
I am sure you will also appreciate that the ongoing Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation means it would be inappropriate for us to comment further on the actions taken by the police.
Nothing is more important than a child’s welfare and everyone who comes into contact with children has a role to play in ensuring that their welfare considerations remain paramount. There is a shared responsibility between organisations and agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in a local area at all times. Further, it is the duty of the statutory safeguarding partners, police, local authority and health to join up the activities and policies of all multi-agency partners to ensure children are safe..."
Department for Education
Unmonitored.ACCOUNT@education.gov.uk
'To contact the Department for Education please call the National Helpline on 0370 000 2288 or use the contact form which can be found at www.gov.uk/contact-dfe. We will endeavour to provide you with a response within 15 working days, or 20 working days if your request was made under the Freedom of Information Act.
If you have concerns that a child is at an immediate risk of harm, please contact your local authority or the Police on 101.
If you are concerned about extremism in a school or organisations that works with children, or if you think a child might be at risk of extremism, contact the National Helpline.'
Email & Letter Format: April 2022
“Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for your email of 17 March to the Minister for Safeguarding about the deeply
concerning report released by City and Hackney Safeguarding Partnership into the strip
search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl (Child Q) by police officers in 2020. Your email has been passed to the Home Office’s Direct Communications Unit for a reply.
This experience will have been traumatic for the child, her family and the community, and the impact upon her welfare should not be underestimated. Strip search is one of the most intrusive powers available to the police and the law is very clear that the use of police powers to search must be fair, respectful and without unlawful discrimination. Any use of strip search should be carried out in accordance with the law and with full regard for the welfare and dignity of the individual being searched, particularly if that ndividual is a child.
If police judge it operationally necessary to strip search a child, they must do so in the presence of the child’s appropriate adult.”
Stephen Gearing
Email: Public.Enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk
Direct Communications Unit
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
Tel: 020 7035 4848
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