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Doctors call for an end to outdated smacking as a form of punishment

Posted: 1st April 2025

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is calling on politicians to support a change to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would eliminate the “reasonable punishment” defence for smacking, currently allowed under the Children Act 2004.

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