Bottomley endorses occasional smack for children
- Title
- Bottomley endorses occasional smack for children
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 2 Dec 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:00:58
- Description
- Speech by Health Secretary, Virginia Bottomley to the Conservative Party Women’s Conference in Hammersmith, backing the decision to allow childminders to smack children when they have parental consent as announced in revised guidelines for registered chidminders by junior health minister John Bowis. Follows Sutton Council being taken to court earlier this year by a childminder after refusing her registration because she used corporal punishment.
- Contributors
- Virginia Bottomley
- Keywords
- Conservative Party; Political conferences; Women; Conferences; Corporal punishment; Child care; Hammersmith; John Bowis
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