Fresh calls have been made to change the law when it comes to smacking a child. Belief among young adults that use of force against a child is unacceptable has grown stronger in recent years according ...

The UK's children's commissioners have united to call for a complete ban on smacking, condemning the current legal framework which allows for a defence of "reasonable punishment" in England and ...

Smacking children is a "Victorian-era punishment" that "undoubtedly harms children's health" and must be banned, leading paediatricians have said. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is ...

Leading doctors in the UK have urged ministers to ban parents in Northern Ireland from smacking their children because doing so is unjust, dangerous and harmful. It was “a scandal” that Scotland and ...