Member

I turn now to the further amendments to this clause, which relate to child performers. Clause 26 is about child employment and is not about child performance, which has its own detailed legislation, regulations and guidance. Amendments 228, 376 and 377 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, particularly relate to the interaction between the child performance regulations and the children not in school registers to be introduced in this legislation. Amendment 228 intends to exempt children who have been granted child performing licences or body of persons approvals from being eligible for inclusion on children not in school registers. The noble Baroness outlined the different nature of child performance from the cases of many children who might be registered on children not in school registers. To be clear, registration on a children not in school register should not necessarily be seen as a negative thing; it is simply so that local authorities can determine where children who are not registered in school are and what they are doing.