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Programme presented by Tony Francis. The Government is shortly expected to announce plans for parents to be able to opt out of their children receiving the cane at school. In a film report Bruce Grocott visits Aldridge Comprehensive School near Walsall which reintroduced corporal punishment in January 1982. Vox pops with pupils at the school, exterior views and an interview with the head teacher Derek Gibbons. Grocott then visits Westwood Comprehensive School near Chesterfield which like all schools controlled by Derbyshire County Council last used the cane in 1981. Interview with head teacher David Vinson and vox pops with pupils. In the studio Tony Francis chairs a debate between the leader of Derbyshire County Council David Bookbinder and the Conservative chair of Walsall Education Committee, Philip Wood who have opposing views on caning.
The next report is in a regular series in which MPs present a filmed report on an issue of their choice. This week John Stokes, the Conservative MP for Halesowen and Stourbridge, looks at the Church of England's role in politics. John Stokes report to camera in Westminster where he proposes that the Church is too involved in the miners’ strike and CND. We see exterior views of Old Swinford parish church at Stourbridge and video clips of the 1982 Falklands memorial service in Westminster Abbey. There are also stills of church members campaigning for CND and stills of Stokes in army uniform. The item ends with Stokes taking part in a debate in a church in his constituency on the nuclear issue.
Political Editor: Reg Harcourt
Production Editor: Bruce Grocott
Film Editor: David Furmage
Graphics: Jim Chalmers; Mark Robinson
Production Team: Rob Whitehouse; Sally Jones; Mark Astaire; Chris Fewlass
Directors: John Pullen; David Berman
Editor: Mike Warman
Production number 5191/84.