Apply for a body of persons licence

After you apply

You must keep records of each young person who performs for 6 months after the last performance. You should submit these to the Child Employment office.

Under a body of persons licence a child can only perform if they:

• receive no payment
• don't take time off from school for a performance
• perform fewer than six days out of seven, or five days if there is a mix of rehearsals and performances
• don't take part in a performance that lasts for more than 3 hours and 30 minutes or perform for more than 2 hours and 30 minutes
• don't take part in more than two performances, or one performance and one rehearsal in a day
• take a break of 1 hour and 30 minutes between two performances or rehearsals on the same day. This break can be reduced to 45 minutes on two days a week as long as the child is not at the place of performance for more than 6 hours
• have a break of 14 hours between each day they perform and / or rehearse
• perform between 10am and 10pm if they are under 13 years old, or between 10am and 10:30pm if they are older than 13

Young people must also be supervised by a licensed chaperone who's allowed to look after a maximum of 12 children.

Contact us

Telephone: Child Employment office on 01473 265195

Email: childemployment@suffolk.gcsx.gov.uk

Address:

Related licences

You can apply for a:

• child employment licence
• chaperone licence
• child performance licence
• matron and chaperone licence (Word, 87KB)
• sporting licence (Word, 172KB)