Fresh call for UK-wide smacking ban as NSPCC says more young adults believe it's wrong Health experts have urged a smacking ban across the UK, with doctors and psychiatrists saying research shows the "detrimental effects of physical punishment".

Children deserve the same protection from assault as adults.

Wales and Scotland already have a so-called #SmackingBan. England needs one.

Longtime @greenparty.org.uk policy

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#ChildrensWellbeing - what should be more central to this Bill than protecting children in England against assault, protection children in Wales & Scotland already have? The so-called #SmackingBan
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Modern parenting is rejecting abusive ways of punishing children. Will England listen? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Older relatives might roll their eyes at this generation’s approach, but it is overdue in a country where smacking is still legal, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

“Anti-fascism begins at home”. Parenting should protect the most vulnerable (ie children) from physical violence. #SmackingBan
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It is not normal to physically assault children.
#IndependenceIsNormal
#Scotland
#SmackingBan

Scotland leading the way. Again.
#Scotland
#Wales
#England
#SmackingBan

The Children's Wellbeing a Schools Bill, what will we Greens be working on in the #HouseofLords? A partial list, including #SmackingBan and #RightToNature

Children’s Commissioners and peers demand ‘long overdue’ ban on hitting children in England All four Children’s Commissioners of the nations of the UK united this week to call for a ban on hitting children in England. Speaking ahead of the Second Reading of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schoo...

Momentum growing for children in England to get same protection from assault as enjoyed in Wales and Scotland, so-called #SmackingBan

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Domestic Abuse Bill: Report stage - protecting children from assault Children in England can now be assaulted in ways that, were one adult to do to another, would be considered absolutely unacceptable by the law and the public

A so-called #SmackingBan - protecting children from assault - is long-time @TheGreenParty policy.

And as I told #HouseofLords in 2021, long overdue in England (already have in Scotland and Wales)

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