The Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) proposed a motion at the TUC Congress in Manchester yesterday calling for a full ban on corporal punishment in the UK, after the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) Scotland Bill was lodged in the Scottish Parliament last week by Green MSP John Finnie.
Addressing the annual TUC Congress, John Drewicz, member of the AEP’s national executive committee, said, ‘Smacking is harmful to a child’s mental health, it models aggressive behaviour and it says to them that it is OK to use violence. There are many other more effective ways of teaching children right from wrong than by hitting them.
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