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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