Physical abuse
Physical abuse may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating, or otherwise causing physical harm to a child.
Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or caregiver fabricates or induces illness in a child whom they are looking after.
Resources
- Physically punishing children is illegal in Wales – Ending Physical Punishment Parent Information Leaflet (Welsh Government)
- Parenting: Give it Time – Parenting guidance for each stage of childhood and adolescence