As a director, you have a responsibility to consider the safeguarding of your cast and crew, whoever they are and whatever their role.
You also need to consider your own safeguarding. It is vital that everyone working with you knows you are following correct procedures and that you take your duty of care seriously. This is never more important than when working directly or indirectly around children — the best way to achieve this is ensuring you are supported by the correct tools and frameworks.
Aimed at directors working with, or aspiring to work with, under 18s as their main or supporting cast, this session will practically bring together the Department for Education’s Child Performance Regulations and the full production process. We will also look at the Children’s Regulations and Local Authority requirements and how to interpret these in practical terms as a director.
This session will be facilitated by The Children’s Productions Support Hub founder Arlene de Cruz and award-winning drama and documentary writer-director Claire Tailyour. As well as moderating the discussion, Claire will provide insight to her own experiences of working with and directing under 18s on programmes such as the BBC/Netflix teen series Phoenix Rise.
If you would like to send us a question in advance for Arlene and Claire, please email them to [email protected] by Friday 31 May.
When: Wednesday 5 June, 6 to 7.30pm
Where: Online
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Accessibility
BSL interpretation and live captioning will be present for this session. If you have any questions or access requirements, please contact [email protected].
About Arlene de Cruz
Arlene has been working in Film, TV and theatre for over 15 years, starting as a chaperone in 2008, and launching the Chaperones and Tutors Agency in 2011, supporting productions in the UK and Internationally.
In 2013, Arlene was a part of working groups for English and Scottish Children’s Regulation revisions, delivering those in 2014 around the UK with Department of Education, PACT and the BBC. After joining BECTU in 2015, Arlene founded the Broadcast & Film Chaperones & Tutors Branch.
In 2018 Arlene pulled together her experience and expertise to create the accredited City and Guild’s production training course P.A.R.T – Practical Accredited (Children’s) Regulations Training and, in 2021, she founded the UK’s first ‘one stop shop’ for production, CPSH – The Children’s Production Support Hub – where production teams can access everything they need to know when working with children and young people.
About Claire Tailyour
Claire Tailyour has directed young talent internationally in both dramas and documentaries. Her credits include the BBC/Netflix teen series Phoenix Rise and Get Even, as well as the documentaries The Forgotten Girls of Dhaka and The Surrogates Club.
Claire is currently directing the first three episodes of The Wives, a new C5 drama that follows the unravelling of one family and starring Jo Joyner, Angela Griffin and Tamzin Outhwaite, and her previous credits include Beyond Paradise, Moving On and Hollyoaks.
