CELCISCentre for Excellence for looked after children in Scotland and CYCJCentre for Youth and Criminal Justice indicated their support for the Bill and said:
In alternative settings, such as in schools, foster care, residential care, and kinship care (where the child/young person is formally 'looked after'), physical punishment is not permissible, and would be regarded by many as wholly unacceptable.4Centre for Excellence for looked after children and Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice. (2017).