The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health demands an end to the "Victorian" punishment saying it harms their mental ...

Experts have renewed calls for the criminalisation of physical punishments for children, amid concerns of 'grey areas' in the ...

It's a topic that divides opinions: 52% of UK adults think it should be legal for parents to smack their children as a form ...

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is demanding an end to the protection under UK law of "reasonable ...

Leading child doctors have joined calls for a complete ban on smacking children in England, saying there is no evidence it ...

It never did me any harm’ is the throwaway justification-of-choice for those who lived, or perhaps endured and survived, a ...

Smacking is still allowed in England as a 'reasonable punishment' but the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health ...

There is no scientific evidence that smacking benefits children, leading children's doctors in the UK have said as they call ...

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is urging politicians to back an amendment to the Children’s ...

Doctors are calling for a ban on the “Victorian-era punishment” of smacking children over concerns that it causes significant ...

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has called for the end of the legal defence that smacking can be a ...

is demanding an end to the protection under UK law of “reasonable punishment”. Professor Andrew Rowland, a consultant paediatrician and RCPCH officer for child protection, said smacking puts ...