The government has uncovered new plans to ban corporal punishment against children.

"Beating children has to be banned by law. It is unacceptable as a method of bnnging up children," said Labour minister Jolanta Fedak to the TVN24 news channel.

"There is consent for beating children among the general public. This has to stop. We want to change the law on counteracting violence in such a way that corporal punishment will be banned," said Fedak.

Asked whether spanking a child will also be banned, the minister did not answer directly, but said only that the line between scolding and beating is very thin.

Fedak also said that corporal punishment is banned in other EU countries.

The minister said that the recent idea of the opposition Law and Justice party to create a computer system to monitor "the children's lot", common to the police, teachers, doctors and social welfare employees, is too general.

"No computer system will make us more sensitive to children being harmed," she said.

According to the opposition, their idea would unite the forces of different services, exchanging information on known child abusers.. Presently each institution acts separately, and information flowing between agencies is insufficient.