Save the children not time
I should like to clarify certain points following a recent article in The Stage headed Artistic licence (Insight, page 6, June 26).
You claim that Richmond is one of the authorities where licensing for child performers is regarded as a low priority and that we make the process “slow and bureaucratic”.
This is simply not the case.
Our Education Welfare Service aims to work flexibly by processing licence applications within a seven day notice period, which is considerably shorter than the 21 day notice requirement under the Children and Young Persons Act. It is not possible to process a licence within a shorter period and rarely within 24 hours, as time is needed to follow up any enquiries and necessary checks.
These checks are, of course, vitally important to ensure that children and young people are safeguarded. This is our paramount consideration.
Nick Whitfield
Director of education and children’s services
Richmond upon Thames Council
Email supplied
Also from The Stage
External links
The Stage Online is not responsible for the content of external sites.
Also in Features [RSS]
- Inspiring diversity
- Mr Topher Campbell’s letter ( Stage Talk, November 13, page 8 ) makes some…
- The Blackpool factor
- Why are The X Factor panellists Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh often derogatory…
- Good parts
- I see that Harry Venning, in his write-up of Little Dorrit , is propagating…
- Get it straight
- Having seen DV8’s production, To Be Straight With You ( November 6, page 30…
- Ross is gross
- I would like to pick up on an adjective used by Ben Dowell in his piece about…
- Notes from history
- I have recently been invited by an elderly friend to examine some Georgian…
- Suits you sir
- In response to the enquiry regarding who played the ape, in the 1960 Jess…
- Give Equity a break
- I get The Stage every week and read with interest your various articles on…
- Never had it so good
- In reference to the report in The Stage ( October 23, page 2 ) that most…
- Yes, we can
- It is without doubt a triumph of American democracy to see an inspirational…
Content is copyright © 2008 The Stage Newspaper Limited unless otherwise stated.
All RSS feeds are published for personal, non-commercial use. (What’s RSS?)