‘Sdim Curo Plant!/Children are Unbeatable! Cymru ('SCP!/CAU! Cymru) was launched in September 2000 to co-ordinate and promote the campaign in Wales. The Strategy Group has representatives from Children in Wales, Save the Children, NSPCC, Action for Children – Gweithredu dros Blant,, Barnardo's, the National Childminding Association, the National Family & Parenting Institute and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Click on the link on the right to learn more about the UK wide campaign.
The Aims of the Alliance are:
Owing to the campaigning by Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable! the Welsh Assembly Government is strongly committed to upholding the UN Convention and supports the aims of the campaign.
In a plenary debate on 14 January 2004 about the Green Paper "Every Child Matters" National Assembly members voted in favour of a ban on smacking children by 41 votes to 9. The motion carried was:
"regretting that the UK Government continues to retain the defence of reasonable chastisement and has taken no significant action towards prohibiting the physical punishment of children in the family."
In 2004 Children are Unbeatable! Parliamentary supporters tried to introduce a new clause to give children equal protection into the Children Bill. The attempts failed and the UK government supported a new clause which has become Section 58 of the Children Act 2004. This allows the 'common assault' of children to be justified as 'reasonable punishment'.
If your organisation is interested in joining the campaign, please contact:
Lynne HillTel: 029 2034 2434, or click on the joining form on this site.
If you are worried about a child phone NSPCC Cymru/Wales Child Protection Helpline: 0808 100 2524.