Apply for a child performance licence

A licence is needed when the:

• child will need to miss school
• audience has to pay an admission charge or the child is paid
• child works more than 4 days in a 6 month period
• child is employed in sporting activities and/or modelling work
• performance is not covered by a body of persons licence 

Further information

Download the Suffolk Byelaws on the Employment of Children 1998 (PDF, 30KB).

You will need to include:

• the child’s birth certificate
• two identical passport photographs taken within six months of the date of the application
• a copy of the contract or other documents regulating the activity or performance
• a Headteachers declaration (Word, 17KB) if the child will need to miss school

The person who must apply is someone:

• responsible for organising the sporting event
• who engages the child as a model
• responsible for the production

Telephone: Child Employment office on 01473 265195

Email: childemployment@suffolk.gov.uk

Address:

• body of persons licence
• child employment licence
• chaperone licence