Campaigners have been left disappointed after the government revealed that it did not have any plans to ban the smacking of children as a physical punishment in England. A new Bill about the ...

Alongside England, Northern Ireland is one of two places in Britain and Ireland to not have completely outlawed smacking children Proposals to make smacking children illegal have been dropped from new ...

Proposals to make smacking children illegal have been dropped from new laws making their way through the Northern Ireland Assembly. Some say a ban would have offered young people legal protection ...