Medical experts in England are calling for a ban on the physical punishment of children, urging an end to the legal defence ...

Football past and present came together in support of a vital cause as Newcastle United icon Kevin Keegan and current ...

The Scottish Parliament passed the changes in 2019, removing the "defence of justifiable assault" from Scots law. The country ...

Niall Murphy, 53 and from the southside of Glasgow, was abused while he was a pupil at Edinburgh Academy. He is looking to ...

A children's charity is marking International Women's Day with a virtual mental health programme for expectant mothers ...

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has called for the end of the legal defence that smacking can be a ...

Smacking is still allowed in England as a 'reasonable punishment' but the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health ...

Leading children's doctors are calling for an end to smacking after arguing it puts children at risk of 'really significant ...

The UK's terror watchdog has backed calls for children under the age of 16 to be banned from social media. Jonathan Hall KC, the UK's independent reviewer of terror legislation, told LBC's Tom ...

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health demands an end to the "Victorian" punishment saying it harms their mental ...