I grew up in Blackpool in the 70’s and in 1976 I went out with a girl called Wendy  who was at St. George’s.

She told me that many girls of all ages (including herself) were caned on the hand by female teachers. The exception is that any girl sent to the headmaster could expect it on the bottom. This happened so rarely that she knew of only one serious incident, involving three girls, who were caned on the bottom by the headmaster, in the five years she had been there;although, two of her girlfriends were once sent to the head but were caned on the bottom by the deputy headmistress with the headmaster observing. This was not done in deference to the pupils’ gender but because the head had a slight wrist sprain from changing a wheel on his car that morning.

boys were caned on the bottom or hand (teacher’s discretion) by teachers of either sex, although female teachers almost always sent boys to the head or another male teacher for a caning after a certain age