The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has written to MPs urging them to back the proposed change to ...

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

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

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

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

Last week a group of leading child doctors called on the UK Government to ban smacking in England ... 20 years more education than my father-in-law, I’ve come to the conclusion that his belief ...

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

Leading children's doctors are calling for an end to smacking after arguing it puts children at risk of 'really significant ...

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 ...