Calls for law banning smacking of children

A children's charity is urging Jersey and Guernsey to follow Scotland's example and ban parents and carers from smacking children.

Members of the Scottish Parliament voted in favour of introducing a law, which will make physical punishment against a child a criminal offence.

The Jersey branch of the NSPCC wants the Channel Islands' governments to make the same legislative changes to protect children.

In January, Jersey's politicians approved a proposition by Deputy Le Hegerat to remove article 79 of the Children Law 2002.

It had allowed 'defence of reasonable corporal punishment of a child', i.e smacking.

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