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Ahead of a\u00a0consolation in January, Huw Irranca-Davies is \u00a0championing a smacking ban, but do his constituents agree with him?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The Welsh Government have laid plans for a consultation on the controversial smacking plan to take place in January. Championing the ban in Children\u2019s Minister Huw Irrance-Davies, who is also an AM and former MP for the constituency of Ogmore, Bridgend in South Wales.<\/p>\n

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Speaking in Swansea to celebrate International Children\u2019s Day, Irranca-Davies said that smacking has \u201cno place\u201d in modern Wales. If the Welsh Government\u2019s plans are indeed passed by the Assembly in January, physical chastisement of children will become punishable by law.<\/p>\n

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In Irranca-Davies\u2019 Ogmore constituency, residents of the village of Gilfach Goch seemed to have split opinions on the proposed ban. Some welcomed it, whilst others chastised the move and argued that, if used sparingly as a punishment, there was \u201cnothing wrong\u201d with the physical punishment of a child.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s rightly being looked at in a different way now,\u201d offers Helen Gibbons. \u201cWe\u2019re living in a very different world now, and some things that were OK before, like smacking, just\u2026aren\u2019t<\/em> anymore. And that\u2019s progress, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

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If Wales does indeed ban the act of smacking, it won\u2019t be the first country in the UK to do so. Scotland is in the process of passing a bill by Green MSP John Finnie into law.<\/p>\n

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Linda Evans, a retired shop assistant, spoke to us about the potential ban at home in Gilfach Goch and said she was outraged.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou have to teach your children right from wrong,\u201d she said, \u201cAnd this is one way of doing it, it\u2019s not abuse. My mother used to smack me, and I\u2019m by no means traumatised by it. To think innocent parents could get prosecuted or God knows what for giving their child a little smack now and again\u2026to me personally, there\u2019s nothing wrong with it. It\u2019s like the world\u2019s gone mad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Huw Irranca-Davies was contacted to request a comment for this article, but has yet to respond.<\/p>\n

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Want to know more about South Wales\u2019 thoughts on the potential smacking ban? Read our vox-pop<\/a> feature.<\/p>\n

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