Parents are to be asked if smacking children should be banned, Children's minister Beverley Hughes announced this week.
Parents are to be asked if smacking children should be banned,
Children's minister Beverley Hughes announced this week.
Under current laws, parents face jail if they hit a child so hard it leaves a mark or a bruise - but under the law, which came into force in January 2005, 'mild punishment' is allowed. Please contact me and let me know your views on this issue
Under current laws, parents face jail if they hit a child so hard it
leaves a mark or a bruise - but under the law, which came into force in
January 2005, 'mild punishment' is allowed.
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