A whole host of celebrities including Sir Michael Caine , Natalie Dormer and Alan Shearer are throwing their weight behind a campaign to finally ban smacking children in England.

In Wales, Scotland and Jersey, any type of corporal punishment – for example, smacking, hitting, slapping and shaking children – is illegal.

Yet in England and Northern Ireland it’s technically legal for a caregiver to discipline a child physically if it’s a “reasonable” punishment.

While current child protection laws protect children from physical abuse, campaigners want to see changes in the law to protect children from physical punishment, too.

The NSPCC, The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), and Barnardo’s will deliver an open letter to prime minister Sir Keir Starmer today urg

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