Question: when did they stop using the cane in england
Answer: In state - run schools , and in private schools where at least part of the funding came from government , corporal punishment was outlawed by the British Parliament in 1986 , following a 1982 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that such punishment could not be administered without parental consent , and that a child 's `` right to education '' could not be infringed by suspending children who , with parental approval , refused to submit to corporal punishment .