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Performing Arts: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of safeguarding provisions in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill for young performers absent from school for work.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
24 Feb 2025
Answer
25 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of safeguarding provisions in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill for young performers absent from school for work.

  2. 24 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 25 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The existing legislation on child performance is already sufficient. Under S37 of the Children and Young Persons Act (1963), a licence must be obtained before children can take part in certain types of performance, both professional and amateur, and in pa...

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