Yasmin Begum and Saqib Deshmukh explore the issue of racial injustice in child strip searches and what it says about our justice system.
Saqib Deshmukh
is an activist, youth worker and writer. He has been active in policing and social justice campaigns with children and young people over the last 30 years. He has experience of frontline work in different parts of the country and of safeguarding practice across 5 local authorities, and was on Leicester Children’s Trust Board in 2010-2012 and the Child Q Core Review Group in 2021-2022. Between 2016 and 2021 he served on the Board of the Institute of Race Relations and recently was the Interim CEO at the Alliance for Youth Justice. He is currently Director of Insaafi CiC, a new not-for-profit that combines the worlds of arts, heritage and justice.