Theresa May is looking to work with police on how they conduct stop and search (Picture: Geoff Pugh/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire)

Theresa May was challenged by a black student on how police conduct stop and search during a visit to a school in south London.

The sixth form student told the prime minister how he had been hassled by police when with a group from minority ethnic backgrounds after seeing the officers ignore a larger group of white people.

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May was visiting Dunraven Sixth Form ahead of the release of the results of a national probe into racial inequality which revealed a growing disparity between white Britons and British minority ethnics.

The Dunraven Sixth Form student explained the group of white people were being ‘quite unruly’ as they went past the police officer but were ignored without any issue.




He added: ‘When we came up there, we got stopped and hassled and harassed and asked where we were going and asked what our business was in that area.’

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Theresa May talks to staff and pupils during a visit to the Dunraven School in Streatham, ahead of the publication of details of the Government’s Race Disparity Audit.(Picture: Geoff Pugh/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire)

The audit was commissioned by the prime minister who is expected to challenge British institutions to ‘explain or change’ the disparities and will hold a cabinet discussion with key stakeholders.

She told the student that although some changes have been made to stop and search there is still more work to do.

She said: I was very clear, nobody should be stopped and searched on the streets of this country because of the colour of their skin but we saw that police were conducting about a quarter of their searches illegally so now we have the best stop and search scheme in place and each police force is signing up to it.’

Some of the findings of the report Chinese and Asian pupils perform better than white and black children in secondary school.

In primary school, 71% of Chinese children meet the expected standard for reading, writing and maths at Key Stage 2. Only 54% of white British pupils reach the same standard, and white Gypsy and Roma pupils perform significantly worse at 13%.

Only 32% of white British children who receive free school meals reach the expected Key Stage 2 standard.

Ethnic minorities are underrepresented at senior levels across Britain’s public sector.

The unemployment rate for Black, Asian and minority ethnic adults (8%) is nearly double that of white Britons (4.6%).

White people, Pakistanis and Indians are more likely to own their own home than Bangladeshis and black people.

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