<P> In state - run schools , and in private schools where at least part of the funding came from government , corporal punishment was outlawed by the British Parliament in 1986 , following a 1982 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that such punishment could not be administered without parental consent , and that a child 's `` right to education '' could not be infringed by suspending children who , with parental approval , refused to submit to corporal punishment . In other private schools , it was banned in 1998 ( England and Wales ) , 2000 ( Scotland ) and 2003 ( Northern Ireland ) . Schools had to keep a record of punishments inflicted , and there are occasional press reports of examples of these `` punishment books '' having survived . </P>
<P> In state - run schools , and in private schools where at least part of the funding came from government , corporal punishment was outlawed by the British Parliament in 1986 , following a 1982 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that such punishment could not be administered without parental consent , and that a child 's `` right to education '' could not be infringed by suspending children who , with parental approval , refused to submit to corporal punishment . In other private schools , it was banned in 1998 ( England and Wales ) , 2000 ( Scotland ) and 2003 ( Northern Ireland ) . Schools had to keep a record of punishments inflicted , and there are occasional press reports of examples of these `` punishment books '' having survived . </P>
when did they stop using the cane in england
when did they stop using the cane in england
1986
1986