Wales smacking ban plan goes to public consultation – BBC News
‘Plans to outlaw smacking children in Wales are going out to a three-month consultation.’
BBC News, 9th January 2018
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‘Plans to outlaw smacking children in Wales are going out to a three-month consultation.’
BBC News, 9th January 2018
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‘Rules around smacking children across the UK are changing as a result of new laws coming into force.’
The Independent, 22nd November 2017
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‘The UK should pass laws to ban parents from smacking their children at home, a United Nations report has suggested.’
BBC News, 24th July 2015
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‘Report compiled for UN by Government’s children’s tsars demands “immediate repeal” of laws allowing parents to hit their children.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2015
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‘This recent domestic violence case involving a child and the comments made by Mrs Justice Pauffley have been exciting the interest of both the media those agencies involved in child protection, such as the NSPCC.’
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UK Human Rights Blog, 13th June 2015
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‘The father, from Rotherham, was completely open with social workers about his conviction that children benefit from corporal punishment.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th March 2015
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‘In an interview with the Independent, the Children’s Commissioner for England, Maggie Atkinson, has expressed her view that smacking should be banned. “Because in law you are forbidden from striking another adult, and from physically chastising your pets”, she said, “but somehow there is a loophole around the fact that you can physically chastise your child.”’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 8th January 2014
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“A volunteer religious teacher at a mosque in Yorkshire has been jailed for 10 weeks for kicking and slapping young boys during lessons at a mosque.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
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“The UK will come under increasing pressure to ban all smacking and corporal punishment of children as the European human rights body steps up pressure for a change in the law.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2010
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“A father who hit his baby son because he knocked a photo frame off a television has been ordered to pay him £50 compensation.”
BBC News, 7th April 2010
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“Smacking is to be banned for anyone working with children outside the family, closing a loophole on corporal punishment, the government has said.”
BBC News, 30th March 2010
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“The law on smacking children is a grey area, which campaigners have sought to change in recent years.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd January 2010
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“Susan Pope, the nurse sacked from a leading public school after smacking her son in her own home, has lost her claim for unfair dismissal.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th August 2009
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“Judges in the case of a girl who was kicked and slapped by her parents have drawn a line at which disciplining children becomes physical abuse.”
BBC News, 1st August 2009
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“A father who horsewhipped his three children for discipline and to stop them ‘going off the rails’ has been jailed at Cardiff Crown Court.”
BBC News, 18th May 2009
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“Child protection authorities yesterday said they hoped to return an eight-year-old boy to his mother who had hit him with a hairbrush as soon as possible, but defended their decision to take him into care.”
The Guardian, 11th April 2009
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“A family has won the right to adopt a girl after they were banned when the father smacked a child for swearing.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th February 2009
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“A schoolteacher has gone on trial accused of hitting the hand of a girl pupil during a design and technology lesson.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st December 2008
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“A couple who told social workers they had the right to smack their adopted son have won the right to a re-hearing in a bid to adopt his sister, aged two.”
BBC News, 4th November 2008
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“A teacher who slapped a pupil on her bottom and called her a ‘naughty girl’ has been found guilty of professional misconduct but can carry on teaching.”
BBC News, 15th October 2008
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