# The Childcare (General Childcare Register) Regulations 2008, Paragraph 5: Welfare of the children being cared for


(1) The later years provider does not give, and ensures that no person who cares for the children gives, corporal punishment to a child for whom the later years provision is being provided.
(2) The later years provider ensures, so far as is reasonably practicable, that no person living or working on the relevant premises gives corporal punishment to a child for whom the later years provision is being provided.
(3) In this paragraph “corporal punishment” means anything done for the purpose of punishing a child (whether or not there are other reasons for doing it) which, absent any justification, would constitute battery.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/975/schedule/3/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-general-childcare-register-regulations-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-5
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