Directorate: Childrens Services
About the team
The Statutory Attendance Support Team is a well-established team with statutory responsibilities related to school absence. They are a core part of Hertfordshire's strategy supporting the DfE agenda to make attendance everyone's business. The team covers responsibilities for school attendance, penalty notices, school-aged employment, and children in entertainment.
About the role
Young people of compulsory school age may legally work in the entertainment industry, but their working hours are strictly governed by legislation. This role ensures that appropriate performance licences are issued for children, enabling the Local Authority to meet its statutory safeguarding responsibilities. It also involves ensuring that children working in entertainment are supervised by licensed chaperones, and that the Local Authority fulfills its duty to approve and regulate chaperones, maintaining legal compliance and protecting child performers.
Key duties include:
1. Ensuring children perform in accordance with legislation and regulations, and are properly licensed.
2. Issuing child performance licences, Body of Persons exemptions, and Chaperone Licences.
3. Revoking or refusing licences that do not comply with legislation, and communicating decisions to relevant parties.
4. Interviewing and training prospective chaperones to ensure understanding of legal requirements, including DBS checks, and overseeing applications.
5. Evaluating personal references related to chaperone applications.
6. Receiving notifications of convictions or cautions from Human Resources.
7. Conducting risk assessments with the Children in Entertainment Officer for chaperone applicants with convictions, and making licensing recommendations.
8. Providing advice and guidance to agents, productions, theatres, schools, parents, and other Local Authorities to ensure compliance with legislation.
9. Responding to complex enquiries requiring interpretation of legislation from broadcasters, theatres, headteachers, agents, and parents.
10. Inspecting productions in various locations to ensure legal compliance, and advising on necessary actions.
11. Completing inspection reports for other Local Authorities involved in productions.
12. Planning and prioritising workloads to meet licensing timescales, including managing seasonal demand increases.
13. Uploading all relevant information onto the database for reporting purposes.
Skills and qualifications
* Knowledge of legislation relating to child performance and ability to interpret and apply it.
* Ability to prioritise workloads and produce accurate work under pressure.
* Effective communication skills across diverse audiences.
* Confidence in handling difficult conversations and responding assertively.
* A good standard of general education.
* Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
* Proficiency in electronic record keeping and process monitoring.
* Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
* Fluency in English and ability to communicate effectively with the public.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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