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Common nonsense
Nursery World,
3 January 2002
As NSPCC parliamentary ambassador, I am concerned that the Government's policy on protecting children from physical harm is in a mess. Child protection is playing second fiddle to spin and the result is inconsistency. Rightly, the Department for Education and Skills recently defended the legal protection of children from corporal punishment in schools. Meanwhile, absurdly, childminders are allowed to hit children with written parental permission - but only in England.
As NSPCC parliamentary ambassador, I am concerned that the Government's policy on protecting children from physical harm is in a mess. Child protection is playing second fiddle to spin and...
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