By Sarah Hall and Lucy Ward The government will today publish proposals to ban parents from smacking their children...
Educationalists say corporal punishment will not return despite support for move in new poll By John Carvel, Education Editor...
A new attempt is being made to clarify and improve the law on the punishment of children in Scotland....
LONDON — A VERY English debate broke out six years ago in the letters page of The Times of...
The Education Secretary, David Blunkett, wants to cut the number of pupils in England expelled from school for bad...
By David Sapsted THE former headmaster of one of the country’s leading preparatory schools, attended by the Countess of...
Peter Roebuck received a suspended sentence Former Somerset cricket captain Peter Roebuck has been given a suspended jail sentence...
Ashley Pritchard: denied nine counts of cruelty to children A FORMER deputy headmaster of a special needs school admitted...
By Richard Savill A HEAD teacher found guilty of slapping an unruly 10-year-old pupil was cleared yesterday to return...
By Paul Stokes THE headmistress of a village school with only 10 pupils has been suspended after parents alleged...