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Medics call for smacking ban
Manchester Evening News
|March 06, 2025
SMACKING puts children at risk of 'really significant physical harm', leading children's doctors have said as they call for an end to the 'Victorian' punishment.
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The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) said smacking children should be consigned to the history books as one senior medic made an emotional plea for p
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