Biggest overhaul to child performance regulations in over 40 years

25 May 2012 12:04 PM

Outdated and confusing child performance rules are to be overhauled, under sweeping changes published yesterday by Children’s Minister Tim Loughton.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