# The Childcare (General Childcare Register) Regulations 2008, Paragraph 7: Welfare of the children being cared for


(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/975/schedule/6/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-general-childcare-register-regulations-2008/schedule-6/paragraph-7
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