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The Advocate

Child development.Safeguarding.Production expertise.

The Child Safety & Wellbeing Advocate brings specialized child-development and safeguarding expertise into production — anticipating risk, strengthening safeguards and supporting the young performer throughout the work. Collaborative in practice. Independent in responsibility.

Specialist expertise in

  • Child development

    Developmental knowledge across ages and stages, including how children experience, understand and respond to professional performance environments.

  • Abuse prevention & safeguarding

    Expertise in risk, boundaries, power and protection, with a focus on preventing harm before it occurs.

  • Relational & trauma-informed practice

    Understanding how safety, trust, relationships and past experiences can shape a young performer's experience of the work.

  • Performance environments

    An understanding of the realities, pace, pressures, hierarchies and creative processes of professional film, television and theatre.

How the Advocate adds value

  • Anticipates risk

    Identifies foreseeable child safety and wellbeing risks before they become problems.

  • Prepares

    Translates specialist knowledge into practical, proportionate safeguards for the young performer and the work.

  • Builds relational safety

    Establishes trust and familiarity before the work begins, creating the conditions for meaningful voice, assent, and participation.

  • Responds

    Consults, supports, and speaks up when circumstances change or when safeguards need to be strengthened.

Working within the production.Standing alongside the young performer.

The Advocate understands the pace, pressures and creative process of production. They know how to communicate effectively within that environment — consulting, briefing and raising concerns with the right people, at the right time, in ways that are clear, proportionate and minimally disruptive to the work.

At the same time, the Advocate builds a trusted, consistent relationship with the young performer and maintains a clear and independent responsibility to their safety, wellbeing and voice.

Production & Creative Team

Consultation and guidance on child safety considerations, practical solutions, and responsive support — integrated into your process.

The Advocate

Specialist expertise. Independent responsibility. Safer production.

Young Performer

A trusted and consistent professional relationship.

Preparation, relational safety, voice, assent, advocacy.

Child safety, built into the work.

A distinct role.A missing piece.

Productions already bring in specialist expertise where particular knowledge and safeguards are needed. Young performers deserve the same intentional approach to their safety and wellbeing.

A Child Safety & Wellbeing Advocate brings expertise that is distinct from — and complementary to — the roles of parents and guardians, studio teachers and tutors, intimacy coordinators, and other members of the production team.

One role. A clear responsibility: keeping the young performer's safety, wellbeing and voice present throughout the work.

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A distinct role.

A missing piece.

A clear responsibility.

Young performers deserve the same intentional approach to their safety and wellbeing.