#institutional-racism

#institutional-racism

An investigation was launched after a Black 15-year-old girl was strip-searched at a London school in 2020.Black children in England and Wales are six times more likely to be strip-searched by police, according to a report that finds children were failed by those sworn to protect them.The report, released on Monday by Children's Commissioner Rachel de Souza, found nearly 3,000 children were strip-searched from 2018 to mid-2022 and more than half the searches were conducted without an appropriate adult present.

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Watch live as Baroness Louise Casey speaks to the home affairs select committee following her report on London's Metropolitan Police, which found the force to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic and unable to police itself.The Met appointed Baroness Casey to lead an independent review of its culture and standards of behaviour in the wake of a series of shocking incidents.

The Government official found the Met Police to be riven with racism, sexism and homophobia, in the way it treats its staff and the way it polices Londoners.She also criticised its inability to protect women and children.Baroness Casey said the force must apologise for past mistakes, improve its accountability, and restore front-line policing to the standards people expect.

Police officers restrain a man after they told people to go home during a march over the murder of 33-year old marketing executive, Sarah Everard, by a police officer in London, on March 15, 2021.(Matt Dunham/AP)Racism, misogyny and homophobia are running rampant in London's Metropolitan Police force, an official review of the institution found, recommending that the force undergo a dramatic overhaul to address deep-seated issues that it said have been exacerbated by a culture of "defensiveness and denial."

B aroness Casey has warned that it will be tragedy for victims and the people of London if the Met fails to reform as her offer to return each year to check on the force's progress was rebuffed by Sir Mark Rowley.The peer, whose landmark report condemned institutional racism, sexism and misogyny as well as failings in frontline policing and Scotland Yard's leadership, said the Met was facing a gargantuan task to implement the very deep changes needed to restore its reputation.

Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has privately admitted in the past that there is institutional racism in the force, two Labour MPs have claimed.Dawn Butler, Labour MP for Brent Central and and Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Labour MP for Streatham, said that commissioner Rowley had agreed there was an issue with institutional racism in the force in previous meetings, but that he had backtracked due to pressure from the government.

The pale lavender fabric in the artist's studio has a history.Embroidered with silver thread in a floral pattern, the material was once a dress, before Roma people in Sweden gave it to Malgorzata Mirga-Tas.In her hands, it had been cut up and combined with other fabrics and delicate paint strokes to create a portrait of a Roma community leader.

A London MP has called for firefighters to wear body-worn cameras when entering homes after a report found institutional racism and misogyny within the London Fire Brigade.The report found shocking behaviour at almost all levels of the country's largest fire service, including a noose being placed by a black firefighter's locker, and a female firefighter being sent a video by a colleague of him exposing himself.

Everett public school students walked out of class on Thursday in protest of a recent decision not to renew the contract of a popular superintendent.About 100 Everett High students walked out of class to demand the school committee change its decision not to renew the contract of Superintendent Priya Tahiliani, according to a GBH report.

A controversial new law on strikes will be a huge backwards step for tackling racism at work in Britain, union and charities have warned.The Strikes bill, which moved rapidly through the Commons and is now in the House of Lords, aim to ensure there are minimum working standards during strike days across six sectors, including health and transport.