Many of these youngsters have been taken into care because the have been battered by their own parents”, the society said in a letter to Mr Jenkin.
The survey found that three English counties were allowing girls in care to be caned, but two have since changed their policy.
In Nottinghamshire, the new Labour administration sent out a letter last week banning corporal punishment of all kinds in community homes.
But the policy of allowing girls to be caned was confirmed in Leicestershire last month. The county’s regulations state that such caning must be on the buttocks, whereas the previous approved school rules allowed girls to be caned on the hand only.
Mr P.W. Naylor, assistant director of Leicestershire’s care branch, said it applied to girls in two observation and assessment centres, and one community home with education on the premises.