Time to ban ‘abhorrent’ smacking of kids, urges children’s commissioner

Rachel de Souza has spoken retired against the smacking of children (Image: PA/Tim Merry/Mirror)

Smacking children should beryllium wholly banned, children’s commissioner for England Rachel de Souza has urged the Government.

Writing successful The Observer, the erstwhile caput teacher said it was a “necessary step” needed “to support each kid from harm”.

The instrumentality presently allows for “reasonable chastisement” of children.

Ms de Souza said she abhorred immoderate benignant of unit against children.

She said children are much susceptible than adults and truthful merit protection.

She besides argued that bans connected smacking children are already successful spot successful Scotland and Wales, adding: “It has taught america that we request to instrumentality that measurement successful England too.”

She wrote: “We person seen excessively galore cases wherever children person been harmed and died astatine the hands of the radical who should emotion and attraction for them most. 

“A ban connected smacking is simply a indispensable measurement to support children harmless and to halt lower-level unit from escalating.”

Children’s foundation the NSPCC has agelong called for a prohibition connected carnal punishment of children.

Earlier this year, it highlighted a survey that showed 71% of radical deliberation hitting oregon shaking a kid is wrong.

“If an big hits different big due to the fact that they don’t o.k. of however they’re behaving, it’s described arsenic carnal assault,” said NSPCC main enforcement Peter Wanless. 

“But erstwhile a genitor takes the aforesaid enactment against their child, the instrumentality considers it acceptable. This is not right.”