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Biggest overhaul to child performance regulations in over 40 years

Outdated and confusing child performance rules are to be overhauled, under sweeping changes published yesterday by Children’s Minister Tim Loughton.

The requirements for licensing under-16s to take part safely in public performances – including television, radio, films or stage – have not been reformed since 1968.

But there is widespread concern they are now simply archaic, complex, irrelevant and overly bureaucratic – drawn up in an age with just three television channels and a handful of radio stations; predating the creation of Ofcom; and taking no account of tighter child protection legislation over the last four decades.

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