Last month, Wales took another vital step towards achieving equal protection under assault law for our children.
Julie Morgan, the Welsh Government's deputy minister for health and social services, introduced the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill in the Senedd during the final week of March.
If this bill is eventually passed by the Welsh Assembly, it will finally end a legal anomaly that allows parents and other adults acting in a parental capacity to physically punish children - something NSPCC Cymru/Wales believes is unfair and wrong.
For many years now, for example, the physical punishment of children has been illegal in schools.
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