Talking smack

I caught the frankly out of touch Good Morning Scotland interview on BBC Radio Scotland with Foreign National Bruce Adamson,the new Children’s Commissioner. It was one of the most simplistic I have ever heard. Predictably he began by telling us smack-

ing was assault and from that disingenuous premise he then condemned the situation in oh-so-backward Scotland. Parents can differentiate between smacking and assault. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 says one cannot use an implement (eg belt or cane), nor shake a child nor strike their head. The Children and Young Persons Act 1937 made cruelty and neglect of a child an offence.

JOHN V LLOYD The Maltings, Keith Place

Inverkeithing Fife