Section 384E — Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989: Child or young person may be strip searched

384E Child or young person may be strip searched (1) A member of staff may, if that member of staff believes on reasonable grounds that a child or young person has in his or her possession a harmful item, conduct a strip search of that child or young person for the purposes of detecting the harmful item— (a) if that member believes on reasonable grounds that a strip search is necessary in order to detect the item; and (b) if a scanner search or a pat down search of the child or young person has already been carried out for that purpose. (2) A child or young person required to undress or remove any clothing and underclothing under subsection (1) may be required to remain undressed or partly undressed only as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes of the search. Sections 384A to 384K, and the heading preceding section 384A, were inserted, as from 25 June 2001, by section 4 Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 3). See section 6(1) of that Act as to the enactment of these sections not affecting the validity of the provisions of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Residential Care) Regulations 1996 (SR 1996/354).