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Baroness Walmsley (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 December 2024

Debate

Home Schooling

Contribution

My Lords, does not the case of poor Sara indicate the urgent need for removing the legal defence of reasonable chastisement of violence against a child? Surely doing so would send out a message that it is never reasonable to beat a child.

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