Question follow-through · 31012
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.
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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
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.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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