Licences Table
Paid performances or unpaid performances | Type of Work | Absence from school? | Length of Performance | Medical required? | Licence required? |
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Paid | TV or Filming | Yes | Any period of time | Yes - unless one provided within previous 6 months | Licence Required |
Paid | TV or Filming | No | Any period of time | Yes - unless one provided within previous 6 months | Licence Required |
Paid | Theatre, Sporting Activity or Modelling | Yes | Any period of time | No | Licence Required |
Paid | Theatre, Sporting Activity or Modelling | No | Any period of time | No | Licence Required |
Unpaid | TV or Filming | Yes | Any period of time | Yes - unless one provided within previous 6 months | Licence Required |
Unpaid | TV or Filming | No | Any period of time up to and including 4 days (and not performed within the previous 6 months) | No | No |
Unpaid | Theatre, Sporting Activity or Modelling | Yes | Any period of time up to and including 4 days (and not performed within the previous 6 months) | No | Licence Required |
Unpaid | Theatre, Sporting Activity or Modelling | No | Any period of time up to and including 4 days (and not performed within the previous 6 months) | No | No |
Unpaid | TV or Filming | Yes | 5 days or more | Yes unless one provided within previous 6 months | Licence Required |
Unpaid | TV or Filming | No | 5 days or more | Yes unless one provided within previous 6 months | Licence Required |
Unpaid | Theatre, Sporting Activity or Modelling | Yes | 5 days or more | Possibly | Licence Required |
Unpaid | Theatre, Sporting Activity or Modelling | No | 5 days or more | Possibly | Licence Required |
Paid Performance
Payment to the child in respect of the child taking part in the performance whether to payment direct to him/her or to any other person.
Unpaid Performance
No payment is made in respect of the child taking part in the performance, whether to him/her or to any other person except for defraying expenses. This means that there is no question of any payment or consideration to procure the services of any child taking part in the performance. (A Guide to the Children (Performances) Regulations 1968.)
Absence from school
Leave of absence may not be given to enable a pupil to undertake employment except in accordance with the licence. The Act and Regulations contain no provision under which absence from school may be authorised for an unlicensed performance.
Parental Declaration of Health
These are required with applications for children wishing to take part in licensed performances in any television, film work, theatre, modelling, radio and sporting activities regardless of any number of days or half days under the conditions of the licence.
Any licensed performance application must have a Parental Declaration of Health, signed by the parent or guardian. This form can be found below.
When a licence is required
A child shall not take part in a performance or activity except under the authority of a licence.
Backdated licences should not be issued; they undermine the licensing process which is, after all, a safeguard for the children.
When licenses are requested at short notice, local authorities will invariably try to accommodate requests. However there must be enough time to deal with the application detail beforehand.
Productions should be mindful that the Local Authority can insist upon '21 days' notice (The Children (Performances and Activities) (England) Regulations 2014)
When sending details from one Local Authority to another - "the licensing authority must send to those authorities copies of the application form and the licence, together with any information they think should be brought to the notice of the other authorities." (Children (Performances) Regulations 1968, Regulation 4.)
Further information
Education Welfare Services
48 Station Road
Wood Green
London
N22 7TY
Tel 020 8489 3477
Email ews@haringey.gov.uk