General Article Calls to ban smacking in England as children are ‘more vulnerable than adults’

Topic Selected: Child Rights Book Volume: 412

England should follow the lead of Scotland and Wales by banning smacking, the children’s commissioner has said.

By James Hockaday

Dame Rachel de Souza is calling for a change of the law, but some within the Government fear criminalising parents would be a nanny-state policy.

She told Times Radio:...

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