The Children are Unbeatable Alliance wants people to register atwww.childrenareunbeatable.org.uk/pressureyourmp.php, and it will send apostcard to their local MP. The campaign is calling for the law onassault to be modernised 'to give children the same protection asadults'.
Tony Samphier, campaigns communication consultant, said, 'We have had afantastic response so far, but we need to step it up.'
The Children's Act of 2004 allows for 'reasonable punishment' ofchildren, which means that parents can discipline children with a smackas long as it does no more than cause a temporary reddening of the skin.However, anti-smacking campaigners say a ban on corporal punishment ofchildren is needed to comply with the UN Convention on the Rights of theChild and the European Social Charter.
