Editing Caning (section)

==== Reformatory caning ====
From 1933 to 1970, the cane was frequently used on boy inmates and less routinely for girl inmates at the youth reformatories in England and Wales known as [[approved school]]s. Many UK approved schools were known for strict discipline, with [[School corporal punishment|corporal punishment]] used where necessary, generally a rather more severe version of the caning (or in Scotland, [[Strapping (punishment)|strapping]]) that was common in ordinary secondary schools.<ref name="corpunref">{{Cite web |url= https://www.corpun.com/counukr.htm |title= United Kingdom: Corporal punishment in reformatories and youth institutions |publisher= World Corporal Punishment Research |year=2019 |access-date=17 November 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191201021508/https://www.corpun.com/counukr.htm |archive-date=1 December 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Under the Approved School Rules 1933, girls under 15 could be caned only on the hands; girls of 15 and over were not to be given caning at all. Boys under 15 could be caned on the hands or the bottom; boys of 15 and over were to be caned only on the clothed buttocks.<ref name="corpunref" />

Before the 1933 rules, there was a case where several teenage girls were severely beaten with a [[tawse]] up to 12 strokes on the seat, with their skirts lifted up.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.corpun.com/kenilworth.htm |title=Corporal punishment at an English girls' reformatory, 1923 |publisher= World Corporal Punishment Research |access-date=17 November 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191117133841/https://www.corpun.com/kenilworth.htm |archive-date=17 November 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

At the approved schools between 1933 and 1970, the normal maximum number of strokes was eight for boys of 15 and over, and six for boys and girls below that age. In particular, boys who absconded were typically given a maximum caning of 8 strokes on the clothed bottom immediately on return to the school, and a 1971 statistical study found that this could be an effective deterrent.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.corpun.com/ukrer1.htm |title=Home Office Research Studies 12: Absconding from Approved Schools |access-date=17 November 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160529162128/http://www.corpun.com/ukrer1.htm |archive-date=29 May 2016 |publisher=HMSO |year=1971 |url-status=live }}</ref>

From 1970, approved schools became "Community Homes with Education" (CHEs) under the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.<ref>{{cite book |last=Langan |first=Mary |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Hee8LJJuNGIC&q=%22community+homes+with+education%22 |title= Welfare: needs, rights, and risks |publisher= Routledge |location=London |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-415-18128-0}}</ref> The national 1933 rules were replaced by local rules drawn up by each local authority. Girl residents of some post-1970 CHEs might as a result sometimes be caned on the buttocks instead of the hands.<ref>{{cite news |last=Healy |first=Pat |url= https://www.corpun.com/ukre8105.htm |title=Caning of girls 'worse than in last century' |work=The Times |location=London |date=20 May 1981 |access-date=25 September 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091022134438/http://www.corpun.com/ukre8105.htm |archive-date=22 October 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> In some cases boys or girls of all ages were caned, in spite of a government recommendation that over-16s should no longer be caned.<ref name="corpunref" />

Caning is still used in the equivalent institutions in some countries, such as [[Caning in Singapore#Reformatory caning|Singapore]] and [[Guyana]].