The Met Police is making changes to how safer schools officers operate in Hackney, east London.
The role of police officers in schools in Hackney is to be overhauled in the wake of the Child Q strip-search scandal.found the search of the 15-year-old black girl by a police officer, in December 2020, was unjustified and racism was "likely" to have been a factor.
Safer Schools Partnerships were piloted in 2002 in response to concerns about poor discipline and anti-social behaviour in schools across 34 local authority areas in England.Hackney schools will adopt the Metropolitan Police's new safety plans, shifting SSOs' roles to "tactical advisers" focused on safeguarding, crime prevention and ensuring children's safety going to and from school.
A report presented at the meeting highlighted there had been no “More Thorough Intimate Parts" searches in the borough since the Child Q scandal.Jim Gamble, the independent child safeguarding commissioner, welcomed the new approach, stressing the need for the SSO role to continue.
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