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UK smacking laws draw fire from UN
By James Tweed,
Nursery World,
9 October 2002
T he UK's position on allowing childminders to smack the children in their care has raised concern at the United Nations.
The UK's position on allowing childminders to smack the children in their care has raised concern at the United Nations. The UN committee on the rights of the child published a report last week looking into the progress Britain has made on children's rights since signing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991. The committee welcomed the fact that the National Assembly for Wales had adopted regulations prohibiting corporal punishment in all forms of daycare,...
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