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Showing Stories from 3rd January 2023 to 28th March 2023

Minister: I assume police have good reasons to conduct strip-searches

(28/03/23) Home Office minister faced groans from peers after comments on child strip searches.

Black children up to six times more likely to be strip-searched

(27/03/23) The data shows the strip-searching of children s is not an isolated problem, limited to London.

(14/03/23) PSNI steps up targeted searches to crack down on CSE (10/03/23) NI Policing Board to review PSNI's use of strip search (09/03/23) New Key Performance Indicators for Youth Justice (07/03/23) Revised sentencing guidelines for Child Cruelty offences (06/03/23) Scotland's new scheme to protect children from OCGs

Force profile: preventative measures

(03/03/23) Merseyside Police has a dedicated team leading prevention work across the force. The chief constable and the team leader talk to Police Oracle.

(24/02/23) UK Policing institute to join project to block child abuse images (22/02/23) Virtual reality headsets found to be used in child abuse cases (20/02/23) A growing resource for criminal justice professionals (16/02/23) Force given 10 areas of learning to improve response to child abuse (13/02/23) West Yorkshire to launch first-ever Youth Commission (09/02/23) Child sex abuse cases take 'an average of 614 days' to conclude (08/02/23) ACC calling for change to under 18s strip search policy

Bedfordshire's absenteeism project

(02/02/23) Since last year, Bedfordshire has been involved a pilot focusing on supporting young people who are frequently absent from school without involving the police.