School sex abuse inquiry 'should also include examination of corporal punishment'

Schoolchildren in an Irish school in the late 1950s. Physical punishment of schoolchildren remained prevalent in Irish schools until 1982. File picture

Survivors have called for the ongoing statutory inquiry into sexual abuse in schools to be widened to include allegations of physical abuse of children by teachers. 

It comes as survivors speak out against a culture of violence and the lifelong consequences because of the treatment they received in religious and lay schools.