Question follow-through · 20220
Children: Corporal Punishment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to legislate for (a) a ban on the physical chastisement of children and (b) penalties for people who do so.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to legislate for (a) a ban on the physical chastisement of children and (b) penalties for people who do so.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
This government does not condone violence or abuse of children. There are laws in place to protect children against this.Crown Prosecution Service guidance is clear that only the mildest form of physical punishment can be used to justify discipline. Where...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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