OpenLegislation

Paragraph 7 Welfare of the children being cared for

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The registered person does not give, and ensures that no person who cares for the children gives, corporal punishment to a child for whom the childcare is being provided.

(2)

In the case of a registered person who is not a home child-carer, the registered person 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 childcare 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.