The Education (Abolition of Corporal Punishment) (Independent Schools) Regulations 1987
These Regulations prescribe the classes of independent schools where corporal punishment may not be lawfully administered. They comprise the existing direct grant schools and any Ministry of Defence school. The schools concerned are the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Suffolk; St Edwards College, Liverpool; TS Indefatigable, Anglesey; and the Duke of York’s Royal Military School, Dover.