Guidance
Children on Stage
Licensing, chaperones and council visits — a free guide for dance schools, stage schools and amateur companies.
When children perform, the local authority can visit the venue — sometimes unannounced — to check that your young cast is safe, well cared for and properly supervised backstage. This guide explains what an officer looks for in a school hall or hired theatre: child performance licences and parental consents, approved chaperones and ratios, dressing rooms and welfare, rest breaks and performance hours, daily records, risk assessments and the fire plan. It ends with a printable show-week checklist to pin up backstage.
Inspection & Testing
What your venue’s electrical and mechanical installations legally require — and what the standards simply recommend.
Legislation, Approved Codes of Practice, British Standards and industry guidance all say something slightly different, and it is rarely obvious which documents create a legal duty and which only offer advice. This free guide brings the key references together in one place for theatres, schools, village halls and live event venues — covering fixed wiring and portable appliance testing, suspension and lifting equipment, emergency lighting and fire systems. Every reference is tagged Statutory, Code of Practice or Guidance, so you can see at a glance what you must do and what is best practice.
