Member

Amendment 376 concerns sharing information about a child. I agree that local authorities should have access to relevant information when a child is licensed to perform. However, we do not believe that this proposed new statutory duty is necessary because, where a child is eligible to be registered on a local authority’s children not in school register, the Bill already makes provision for regulations to prescribe specific details to be included in registers. These may include the reasons why the child is eligible, such as that the child is a child performer. In circumstances where children did need to be on the register, by virtue of their performance, it would be possible and appropriate to note that that was by virtue of them being performers, rather than for any other reason.