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MPs fail to ban smacking
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
9 October 2008
An attempt by MPs to ban smacking has failed in the House of Commons after no time was left to discuss it adequately.
A group of cross-party MPs, led by Labour's Kevin Barron, were unable to force through the ban during a debate yesterday on amendments to the Children and Young Persons Bill. There were just four hours to debate the legislation, which were taken up with discussing the main points of the Bill, including fostering issues and residential placements. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said that while the Government did not encourage or condone smacking, it did not support a...
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