Children in custody have been stripped naked and searched more than 43,000 times in under two years.
The Youth Justice Board promised to end the routine strip-searching of children in 2011. saying the practice was undignified and led to ‘feelings of anger, humiliation and anxiety’.
But an investigation has found children were forced to strip naked on 43,960 occasions in the 21 months leading up to December 2012. Illicit items were found in just 275 cases .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk
