Children Are Unbeatable!

The Children Are Unbeatable! Alliance brings together more than 400 organisations and many more individuals to campaign for the UK to satisfy human rights obligations by modernising the law on assault to give children the same protection that adults take for granted.

We simply want children to have equal protection. "Smacking" is already banned under the law on assault – protecting all people except children.

The law still allows parents and others to justify common assault of children as "reasonable punishment" (section 58 of the Children Act 2004). This defence is unjust and unsafe, and must be abolished now.

This simple reform will send the clear message that hitting children, however we dress it up, is as unacceptable and unlawful as hitting anyone else.

Giving children less protection under the law on assault is disrespectful. Children are people with human rights to physical integrity and human dignity just like the rest of us.

Hitting children as punishment hurts, harms and humiliates. Ending the legal approval of this violent and unnecessary behaviour is long-overdue.

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TELL YOUR MP TO VOTE TO END THE LEGAL APPROVAL OF HITTING CHILDREN

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