Legislation to ban caning
NZPA-AAP London Legislation banning the use of the cane on schoolchildren whose parents object to its use will be introduced by the British Government, according to London newspapers. It will give legislative force in England and Wales to a European Court of Human Rights ruling in 1982 that schoolchildren should not be beaten if their parents objected to it. The bill is expected to be introduced in the next session of Parliament. The Government’s decision to introduce legislation follows up the issuing of a consultative paper last July
by the Department of Education and Science. This paper proposed that children whose parents objected to corporal punishment should not be caned, but that the children of parents who did not object could still be punished in that way. Legislation was now needed to cover this situation. In early 1982 the European Court found against the United Kingdom in cages brought by two Scottish mothers about the use of the tawse (strap) resulting in a £12,000 (about $25,560) payout by the Government in compensation and legal costs.
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Press, 12 July 1984, Page 15
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