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Allied to the introduction of s. 58 CA 2004, the UK government made various press releases informing the public in England and Wales that Act's effects in lay terms, such as the following from The Daily Telegraph: [6] Parents who smack their children hard enough to leave a mark will face up to five years' imprisonment from today.
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IN FOCUS: A decisive report this week called for a ban on smacking children in England and Northern Ireland, declaring it a danger to children’s mental health. Susie Mesure talks to experts (and ...
Paediatricians have described the current law as ‘unjust and dangerously vague’.
It is also illegal to strike the head when disciplining a child. [44] [45] In the UK (except Scotland and Wales), spanking or smacking is legal, but it must not cause an injury amounting to actual bodily harm (any injury such as visible bruising, breaking of the whole skin, etc.).
Utilising the unlawful threshold, the courts of England and Wales have convicted parents on the basis that their acts amounted to ABH and were therefore unlawful, yet have passed sentences less than six months, contrary to the requirement of more than six months; police and social services also continue to use the long-withdrawn assertions of ...
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson said she was ‘open-minded’ about calls for a ban
The Children and Parents Code does not itself impose penalties for smacking children, but instances of corporal punishment that meet the criteria of assault may be prosecuted. [81] From the 1960s to the 2000s, there was a steady decline in the numbers of parents who use physical punishment as well as those who believe in its use.