Smacking is illegal in Wales and Scotland but there remains a legal defence in England and Northern Ireland.The UK’s children’s commissioners have called for a wholesale smacking ban, describing the current situation where there is a legal defence in some nations as “outdated and morally repugnant”.Wales made any type of corporal punishment, including smacking, hitting,…

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