Legal Frameworks

Being an acting tutor I would have to do research on a lot of laws that I’d have to abide by in order to protect my business. I would be using my home as a location for tutoring and I would likely be doing lessons online too, and these lessons could be with students of many different ages which could mean that people who are underage would be having lessons with me, meaning I would have to have safeguarding for example sorted so I can actually stage my lessons.

For any adult student I may have to complete a DBS check to make sure that they’re safe to teach. A DBS check is where someone who doesn’t know you or has just met or come across you can check your criminal record if they want peace of mind as to whether they think they or someone else is safe around you. There are four different checks; usually people will only request a basic check, although in healthcare and childcare situations, a more detailed check could be requested. As some of my students would likely be underage, my lessons with them would be classed as childcare and therefore parents may want to carry out a more detailed check on me to find out about any past convictions I may or may not have and decide from there if they want their child to be tutored by me. https://www.gov.uk/dbs-check-applicant-criminal-record

Similar to DBS checks in some way, I would also have to pay attention to safeguarding in order to ensure the safety of all students at my home should lessons be there. To safeguard students in my house I would have to ensure I have removed or at list taken in to account all ways students could be harmed, for example I could carry out risk assessments for each student in order to make sure they’re safe. I’m accountable for the safety of anyone who enters my home and therefore if a student were to get hurt it’d be down to me and therefore my fault. Another thing that would be useful here is first aid training as if someone got hurt and they needed medical help right away, I could then give it to them. I would also have to keep them under constant supervision to ensure further nothing happens to them. https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/safeguarding-checklist/  https://www.anncrafttrust.org/resources/six-principles-adult-safeguarding/

If a child wants to go on and be an actor/performer, they have to have certain licencing before they can actually be allowed to legally perform to avoid exploitation for example. If the child is going to take part in a play, film, concert etc. that an audience is paying to see, they will need to have a licence that the organiser of the event would have to apply for. Also, if the child’s parents can’t be there they will need to have a chaperone approved for them by the council, this chaperone can be anyone who has already been approved or asked for approval from the council. Children under 16 don’t pay national insurance and are not entitled to minimum wage, this starts for 16-17 year olds and gets higher as the age of the person goes up. https://www.gov.uk/child-employment/performance-licences-for-children https://www.gov.uk/child-employment/paying