Write to your MP!

Your MP (Member of Parliament) is the person who represents you and other people in your area in Parliament.Parliament is the authority which makes and changes laws in the UK. There are about 1400 people in Parliament. It is made up of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Queen.

You have the right to contact your MP, and your MP has to listen to you – it's their job.

So write to your MP and ask them to support Children are Unbeatable! This is one of the most important things you can do to help change the law and make a real difference!

Children are Unbeatable! have special postcards which you can send to your MP asking them to support changing the law. Just fill in this form and we will post you some.

Or, even better, you can write your own letter. It doesn't have to be long or complicated – there are some ideas about what you could say below. You can use this website to write to your MP.

If you write to your MP, they should reply to you. If they don't reply, you can write again asking them why they haven't answered.

If you want to, you can also go and talk to your MP face to face about changing the law. You could go with a friend or someone in your family, or by yourself. You can talk to your MP at their 'surgeries'. Get in touch if you want us to find out when your MP's surgeries are and tell you.

Some things you could say to your MP...

• Explain that you campaign with the Children are Unbeatable! Alliance, and that you want the law to change to make it illegal for adults to hit or hurt children.

• Say why you think the law should change. For example: because it's not fair that children are less protected than adults, because hitting children hurts them and there are much better ways of punishing them, because children's human rights should be respected, because the United Nations says the UK should change the law...

• Ask them to join the Children are Unbeatable! Alliance to show that they support us.

If you go and talk to your MP, or you write to them, let us know, and tell us what they say!