Between April 2023 and March this year, the charity’s helpline received 1,451 calls from people cross the UK that mentioned physical punishment against children – more than three times more than calls received about the topic the year before.
Some 45% of the concerns raised were serious enough to need a referral to children’s social services, the police, or other services, according to the NSPCC.
Calls included reports of children being hit, slapped, and shaken, as part of discipline and punishment and increased over the summer months when “children were more visible to other members of the public rather than in school”.
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