MPs and campaigners want Rachel de Souza to commit to ending ‘reasonable chastisement’ defence
Children’s rights campaigners have expressed dismay after the government’s preferred candidate to become the next children’s commissioner was unable to express a view on whether there should be a ban on the use of corporal punishment in England.
Dame Rachel de Souza was giving evidence to MPs on the Commons education committee before her almost certain appointment when she was asked if she would follow the lead of children’s commissioners in Scotland and Wales and seek a legal ban in England.
