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Mentally Handicapped Young Persons (Corporal Punishment)

Volume 20: debated on Monday 15 March 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many and what local authorities have banned corporal punishment in homes for mentally handicapped children and teenagers; and whether, in the light of the recent Court of Human Rights ruling, he will take steps to require all local authorities to ban corporal punishment in such homes.