Smacking children is a "Victorian-era punishment" that "undoubtedly harms children's health" and must be banned, leading paediatricians have said. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is ...
Corporal punishment including smacking has been used as an excuse for "awful abuse" and should be outlawed, a royal commissioner says. South Australia's Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and ...
A whole host of celebrities including Sir Michael Caine, Natalie Dormer and Alan Shearer are throwing their weight behind a campaign to finally ban smacking children in England. In Wales, Scotland and ...
The education secretary has said Labour will wait and see how a child smacking ban in Wales works before banning “reasonable chastisement” in England. Despite Sir Keir Starmer in 2022 calling for a ...