Editing Caning (section)

==== In children's institutes ====
Corporal punishment at children's homes was less severe. The ''Administration of Children's Homes Regulations 1951'' (S.O. No 1217) provided that children under 10 should be punished only on their hands either by the headmaster or in his presence and direction.

Only girls under 10 and boys under the school leaving age (15 at that time) could be corporally punished. Children under 10 should be punished only on their hands. A boy over 10 but under 15 could be caned up to a maximum of six strokes on the clothed buttocks.