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In the UK, corporal punishment of children is legal'Legal’ means that the law says it is OK. at home and in some, but not all, other places where children live. It is illegal'Illegal' means that it is against the law. in schools, in prison and as a punishment for crime. More detail.
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In 1669, a ‘lively boy’ sent a letter to ParliamentThe UK Parliament makes and changes laws in the UK. in the UK asking for an end to corporal punishment in schools. More than 300 years later, school corporal punishment was finally made illegal. But today, corporal punishment in children's own homes is still legal. Read more about how young people today are working to change this.
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Several pieces of research on what children in the UK think about corporal punishment have been done. Find out what children said.
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