Children Are Unbeatable! Alliance - Info
Cymru/Wales
Sdim Curo Plant!/Children are Unbeatable! Cymru ('SCP!/CAU! Cymru) was launched in September 2000 to co-ordinate and promote the campaign in Wales. The Strategy Group has representatives from Children in Wales, Save the Children, NSPCC, NCH, Barnardo's, the National Childminding Association, the National Family & Parenting Institute and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The Aims of the Alliance are:
- to change the law so that children and young people have the same protection from being hit as adults
- a public education campaign about why ‘smacking’ children is not OK
- for parents to have lots of information and practical advice and support about alternatives to ‘smacking’ and using a positive approach to bringing up children
Owing to the campaigning by Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable! the Welsh Assembly Government is strongly committed to upholding the UN Convention and supports the aims of the campaign.
In a plenary debate on 14 January 2004 about the Green Paper "Every Child Matters" National Assembly members voted in favour of a ban on smacking children by 41 votes to 9. The motion carried was:
"regretting that the UK Government continues to retain the defence of reasonable chastisement and has taken no significant action towards prohibiting the physical punishment of children in the family."
www.childreninwales.org.uk/2401.html
'Sdim Curo Plant!
Fe lansiwyd ‘Sdim Curo Plant!/Children are Unbeatable! Cymru ('SCP!/CAU! Cymru) ym mis Medi, 2000 i gydgysylltu ac i hyrwyddo’r ymgyrch yng Nghymru. Y mae gan y Grwp Strategaeth gynrychiolwyr o fudiadau Plant yng Nghymru, Achub y Plant, Y Gymdeithas Genedlaethol er Atal Creulondeb i Blant, NCH, Barnardo's, Cymdeithas Genedlaethol y Gwarchodwyr Plant, y Sefydliad Cenedlaethol dros y Teulu a Magu Plant, a Choleg Brenhinol Pediatreg ac Iechyd Plant. Cliciwch ar y ddolen gyswllt ar yr ochr dde i ddysgu mwy am yr ymgyrch drwy’r Deyrnas Gyfunol gyfan.
Amcanion y Gynghrair yw:
- newid y gyfraith fel bod plant a phobl ifanc â’r un amddiffyniad rhag cael eu taro ag sydd gan oedolion
- ymgyrch addysg gyhoeddus ynglyn â pham nad yw’n iawn taro plant
- i rieni gael llawer o wybodaeth a chyngor a chefnogaeth ymarferol am ddulliau amgenach na ‘tharo’ a defnyddio ymagweddiad cadarnhaol tuag at fagu plant
O ganlyniad i’r ymgyrchu gan ‘Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable!, y mae Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru wedi ymrwymo yn gadarn i gynnal Confensiwn y Cenhedloedd Unedig ac i gefnogi amcanion yr ymgyrch.
Mewn dadl mewn cyfarfod llawn ar y 14eg o Ionawr, 2004 ynglyn â’r Papur Gwyrdd, "Mae Pob Plentyn yn Bwysig", fe bleidleisiodd aelodau Cynulliad Cymru o blaid gwahardd taro plant o 41 o bleidleisiau i 9. Yr oedd y cynnig a dderbyniwyd yn:
"edifar bod Llywodraeth y Deyrnas Gyfunol yn parhau i gynnal yr amddiffyniad o gosbi rhesymol ac nad ydyw wedi cymeryd unrhyw gam sylweddol tuag at wahardd cosbi plant yn gorfforol yn y teulu."
www.plantyngnghymru.org.uk/2401.html
Recent News
‘Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable at the Senedd – February 14th 2007
Children are Unbeatable! Cymru held an event at the Senedd to present the report “Help at Hand” and also to report on the United Nations Study on Violence Against Children. Jane Hutt, Minister for Children, opened the event, and other speakers included Dr. Sam Clutton, one of the researchers on “Help at Hand!”, and Peter Newell from CAU! in England. For more information on the event, go to:
http://new.wales.gov.uk/news/presreleasearchive/140207children/?lang=en
http://new.wales.gov.uk/news/presreleasearchive/140207children/?lang=cy
Help at Hand - Learning from our communities on promoting alternatives to smacking children, January 2007
Children are Unbeatable! Cymru commissioned a programme of events in Briton Ferry West to evaluate what might change attitudes towards the physical punishment of children, and how to provide advice and support to parents and carers to provide positive, non-violent discipline. The programme was evaluated, and the results area available in a report which can be found at