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Smacking goes to vote
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
8 October 2008
MPs will vote today (8 October) on whether to ban smacking when they debate an amendment to the Children and Young Persons Bill.
The amendment to the Bill has been put forward by a cross-party group of MPs and aims to abolish the legal defence of 'reasonable chastisement' and give children the same protection in law from assault as adults. The current law allows parents to discipline children with a smack as long as it does no more than cause a temporary reddening of the skin. Labour MP Kevin Barron, chair of the all-party Commons health committee, has tabled the...
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