Government to issue ‘much tougher guidelines’ on strip searches in schools

Zahawi reviews policy after hugely distressing' case of Child Q, searched by police without parental consent

The government will issue much tougher guidelines" on strip searches of children in schools, in the wake of the Child Q scandal.

The education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, said he found the case of the child - who was subjected to an intimate strip search by police officers in her school when she was 15 without parental consent and in the knowledge that she was menstruating - hugely distressing".